Sisters Quotes

Sibling relationships - and 80 percent of Americans have at least one - outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust.

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Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

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Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow, and wise is the counsel of those who love us.

Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.

Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several children.  But once the children grow older, sisters draw closer together and often, in old age, they become each other's chosen and most happy companions.

Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

They were like two trees with buried roots so tangled that they inevitably leaned on each other, and also strangled each other a bit.

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.

Is solace anywhere
more comforting
than in the arms
of sisters?

Near or far, there are burdens and terrors in sisterhood, and perhaps the nearer, the more complicated.