“Sisters are blossoms in the garden of life,” Author Unknown
“Sister to sister we will always be, a couple of nuts off the family tree,” Author Unknown
“A sister shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams,” Author Unknown
“Sisters may share the same mother and father but appear to come from different families,” Author Unknown
“You can kid the world, but not your sister,” Charlotte Gray English author and professor
“May and I are sisters. We’ll always fight, but we’ll always make up as well. That’s what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other’s frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we’ve had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time…” Lisa See, in Shanghai Girls
“Having a sister is like having a best friend you can’t get rid of. You know whatever you do, they’ll still be there,” Amy Li, author
“If you don’t understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child,” Linda Sunshine, author and editor
“Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply…” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814
“Sisters are probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship,” Margaret Mead, anthropologist
“We acquire friends and we make enemies,…. our sisters come with the territory,” Evelyn Loeb, author
“Sisters share the scent and smells – the feel of a common childhood,” Pam Brown, Australian poet.
“Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers,” Pam Brown, Australian poet.
“I don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at,” Maya Angelou, poet and author
“Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other,” Carol Saline along with photographer, Sharon Wohlmuth, has co-authored five photo-essay books. Their most popular, Sisters, spent 63 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and sold over one million copies.
My sisters are all of these and much more. Together we face the world, even when we cannot face each other. Their children and grandchildren are a part of me and mine, in a way I cannot define. Time, distance, death does not break the bond we worked hard to make, no matter the bittersweet of anger, hurt, broken trust….
We are sisters…..
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