Marilyn Monroe
Actress, Model
"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."
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Sister
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Jane Austen
Novelist
"The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder."
Cole Porter
Composer
"He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie."
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."
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"Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It."
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"Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero."
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"A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all."
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"Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister."
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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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"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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"Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow."
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"When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?"
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"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."
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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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"There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!"
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"A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all."
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"Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring."
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"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."
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