Laura Esquivel

I am always interested in that relationship between outer reality and inner desire, and I think it is important to pay attention to the inner voice because it is the only way to discover your mission in life and the only way to develop the strength to break with whatever familial or cultural norms are preventing you from fulfilling your destiny.

Mexican Author

Tavi Gevinson

So much about 'Rookie' has been very organically familial among our contributors, among our readers. Yeah, if I interview someone like Lorde, who I do know outside of work - sometimes I'm just so happy; it's so cool that this is organically, effortlessly, the warm, supportive friend vibe that we want here.

American Writer

Lynn Coady

We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We are shown photos of our great-grandparents and encouraged to marvel over facial similarities. We are told to take pride in our bloodlines, celebrate our ancestry.

Canadian Novelist

Kiki Dee

We had idyllic summer holidays, building sandcastles with my father on the beach at Bridlington. It might sound strange, but I think that secure cocoon of familial love was so nourishing, it gave me the strength to live life on my own.

English Musician

Molly Antopol

When I'm writing a story, which takes me a year or more, I can feel my character living with me - they're responding to whatever funny, familial, or social situation I'm in, and I think about their responses constantly.

Lauren Ash

I think most humans have experienced a time in their life where they were deeply in love, whether it's romantic or familial or friendship love, with someone who didn't feel the same way back.

Denise Crosby

The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of being this perfect world. It had quite a dark side to it.

American Actress

Alexandra Bracken

Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind - because if you can't trust your family to love you and protect you, who can you really trust?

American Author

James E. Faust

I believe there is a strong familial pull as the influence of beloved ancestors continues with us from the other side of the veil.

American Clergyman

Jimmy Smits

There's something so familial and intimate between a boxer and his trainer.

American Actor

‘Familial’ often implies deep emotional ties, not just biological ones.

Emotional Connection

Some cultures have wider definitions of ‘familial’, including extended members.

Cultural Sensitivity

‘Familial’ can describe relationships resembling those of a family.

Non-biological Use

‘Familial’ in medicine refers specifically to diseases prevalent in a family due to genetics.

Medical Specificity

This use of 'familial' is often found in academic or clinical environments.

Medical Academic

Just because a disease is 'familial' does not guarantee an individual will have it.

Not Always Present

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The history of marriage...

 even the elephant's plain elephant Plains clan there could potentially be a familial connection there they might once have come from the same clan that splits in two into two sometimes females don't appreciate their lot in life if they're low ranked and they sometimes do move off and start their own clan often

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 there to help safeguard and care for the mothers and newborn calves this group commitment is immediately the very embodiment of the family adaptation all engaged on behalf of the emergent generation so as we've just seen we as human animals are not the sole practitioners of familial engagement at

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 emotion around it and and then from that it was getting these glimpses of seeing when I would go on these hunts I would realize spending time kind of deeper time in nature away from a place like New York City and even away from these sort of familial

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 really the essence of life I think and I love that about your book and this photo sort of embodies that for me that food is a celebration it's a shared familial event it's not just eating together it's not it's about what's behind it that even

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 human infection fighters barely scratched the surface conceivably in the not-so-distant future we might be accepting alligator blood donations and since dinosaurs have a familial link to alligators chances are they too had

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 you see a really personal relationship tribal or community or familial relationship with with sharks where they're in many ways they you know again will protect some individuals or communities and and attack others and so

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 my two cousins and my 91-year-old granny fly up to support. They are drenched -- drenched -- in Southern pride and basking in familial glory as Tina Turner pretends to give me a light smacking around at the curtain call,

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 especially in our democracy. And when we think of why people do not get involved, why they do not become activists, it's often that people are so worn down with their own familial responsibilities,