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I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
Oct 1, 2025
Like most of us, I'm used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit 'multiple-personality'.
We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.
If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?
Just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them.
Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.
Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don't want to leave anybody out.
If but one message, I may leave behind, One single word of courage for my kind, It would be this Oh, brother, sister, friend, Whatever life may bring what God may send, No matter whether clouds life soon or late-- Take heart and wait!
The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more comfortable to her than the day, with whom her life is so entwined that the wrench of parting leaves a torn void never entirely healed or filled.
A woman needs someone she can trust, someone who laughs when she laughs, but who has different ideas so she can learn from and teach to them. She needs someone who will stand up with her and encourage her to be a woman-not just a female. See where you are, admit what you know, and what you need, and search for a sister friend.
Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.
I want to be the best daughter, sister, friend and wife I can possibly be - because when I die, I am not going to be buried with my Oscar.
Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.
In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend.
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.
Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it's your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most.
Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good.
I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.
I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.
An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
You can kid the world, but not your sister.
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister.
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
There's no better friend than a sister.
When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?
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.
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.
Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.
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