Sisters And Mothers Quotes

I am a true psychic. In my family it's the norm. My sister and mother are always 'in my head' and say or do the same things I'm doing at the same time.

Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling.

It's true that I wouldn't have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of continuing our conversation. It's also this Jewish thing of naming and remembering people, and I think there is a sense of keeping that side of life going.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.

Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.

Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.

One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself.

That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.

It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.

We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.

Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!

You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.

Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don't love you they are connected to you till you die. You can be boring and tedious with -sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends.

A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first."

My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.

Sisters share the scent and smells... the feel of a common childhood.

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

There's no better friend than a sister.

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.

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.

Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me."