Jane Austen
Novelist
"The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder."
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Sibling
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Alice Walker
Novelist, Poet
"Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister."
Toni Morrison
Novelist, Essayist
"A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double."
Patti Davis
Author, Actress
"I had this odd sibling rivalry with America."
Dylan Thomas
Poet, Writer
"It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea."
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"We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children."
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"The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together."
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"I certainly believe we all suffer damage, one way or another. How could we not,except in a world of perfect parents, siblings, neighbours, companions? And then there is the question on which so much depends, of how we react to the damage: whether we admit it or repress it,and how this affects our dealings with others.Some admit the damage, and try to mitigate it;some spend their lives trying to help others who are damaged; and there are those whose main concern is to avoid further damage to themselves, at whatever cost. And those are the ones who are ruthless, and the ones to be careful of."
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"Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood."
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"If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater."
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"Sisterhood is powerful."
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"Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other - they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other."
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"An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too."
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"A ministering angel shall my sister be."
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"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."
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"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."
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"We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I can never be utterly lonely, knowing you share the planet."
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"I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family."
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"When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?"
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"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."
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"I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness."
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"If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings."
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"There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!"
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"My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton."
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"I believe in soulmates, yes, but I believe you also have to work at love. I happen to believe your soulmate doesn't have to be your partner - your soulmate could be your best friend, your sibling, it doesn't have to be the person you marry."
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