Ayanna Pressley Quotes

I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.

I really like reading about how families work together.

My relationships with both my mother and father are good. We spent several difficult years hashing over the problems and the past, and worked out a fairly solid middle ground. I wouldn't say my relationship with either of them - they're no longer together - is exactly typical, but that would be difficult after all we went through.

And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on.

This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.

I think we are defined as human beings through our families, no matter what kind of family - through our relationships with parents, brothers and sisters.

My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.

When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.

I grew up in a big family. You have to learn to get along with each other... get things done as a family.

It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband.

One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.

I have three sons, a husband, parents, and I'll fight and get angry, but what is very important that I have found as I've matured, is that I have to move on.

I don't mind being an only child; never have. I am lucky, though, that I have my friend Emily, who grew-up very close to me and so, there is someone I have shared memories with. I would miss that if I didn't have it, I think.

I keep referring to them in the plural but all I'm dealing with is Bob. I don't know where Harvey fits in the equation. He was very present at the beginning, winding his brother up. I don't know where he is now.

I'm endlessly fascinated with the ways families work and the ways they don't.

I'm one of 3; I have a 16-year-old sister and an 11-year-old brother. We're all very close. We're an interesting family, and we moved a lot when I was younger. I feel like we are very tight knit because we had to sort of jump and leave places and start over again and again.

We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I had great homes. Both my parents remarried and I got more people to learn from!

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my family and my two sisters' families - their children - grew up and so on, it just wasn't the same. But we took care of them very nicely.

I think a lot of the time, we don't give our family connections the kind of credit they deserve, like how important they are to us and how much they mean to us. I think family makes all the difference.

I think families find a dynamic that works for them.

I care about family issues.

I wouldn't say that it's hard for sisters to treat each other with respect. Many do.

I grew up in a family where I had a lot of different siblings from - you know, I grew up in a big family, and I think it's a beautiful thing.

Families can get torn apart and never recover or they grow even closer.