"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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"It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person."
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"She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person."
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"Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor."
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"Sisters make the best friends in the world."
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"There were once two sisters who were not afriad of the dark because the dark was full of the other's voice across the room, because even when the night was thick and starless they walked home together from the river seeing who could last the longest without turning on her flashlight, not afraid because sometimes in the pitch of night they'd lie on their backs in the middle of the path and look up until the stars came back and when they did, they'd reach their arms up to touch them and did."
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"Sisters share the scent and smells... the feel of a common childhood."
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"Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five."
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"With a basic understanding of all humans as brothers and sisters, we can appreciate the usefulness of different systems and ideologies that can accommodate different individuals and groups with different cultural heritages, having different dispositions and tastes. Each person has the right to choose whatever is most suitable, on the basis of a deep understanding of all others as brothers and sisters."
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"One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up."
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"You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you."
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"But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way."
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"If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive."
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"Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?"
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"It is useless, sisters, for you to attempt the duties of your exalted callings . . . without the constant companionship of the Spirit of God."
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"A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea-pig in trying sledges and experimental go-carts. Someone to send on messages to Mum. But someone who needs you - who comes to you with bumped heads, grazed knees, tales of persecution. Someone who trusts you to defend her. Someone who thinks you know the answers to almost everything."
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