"Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become."
- Elizabeth Fishel
October 17, 2024
"There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me."
- Mary Worley Montagu
October 17, 2024
"Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow."
- Benjamin Disraeli
October 17, 2024
"We have our own, unspoken language—a look that makes one of us fall on the floor laughing or the slight inflection in our voice that conveys everything. It is the ability to prod laughter and love no matter how much your heart might hurt. Someone who sees you exactly as you are and thinks that is enough. Someone who will walk next to you always."
- Barbara Bush, on twin sister Jenna Bush Hager
October 17, 2024
"Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other."
- Carol Saline
October 17, 2024
"For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands."
- Christina Rossetti
October 17, 2024
"You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections; there is nothing like it in this world."
- Charlotte Bronte
October 17, 2024
"Sister to sister we will always be, a couple of nuts off the family tree."
- Anonymous
October 17, 2024
"Even though I can’t solve your problems, I will be there as your sound board whenever you need me."
- Sandra K. Lamberson
October 17, 2024
"My sister was the one person who told me not to change, that my skin was beautiful. She really helped me feel good about myself."
- Khoudia Diop
October 17, 2024
"There is no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me."
- Lady Mary Montagu
October 17, 2024
"That’s the best thing about little sisters: They spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters that in the end they’re far wiser than the elder ones could ever be."
- Gemma Burgess
October 17, 2024
"Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that’s never lost is your sister."
- Gail Sheeny
October 17, 2024
"If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?"
- Jodi Picoult
October 17, 2024
"everything is more fun when you do it with your sister."
- Lorraine Bodger, I’m the Pretty One, You’re the Smart One
October 17, 2024
"Don’t talk about my sister; don’t play with me about my sister. If you do, you’ll see another side of me."
- Beyoncé
October 17, 2024
"Your sisters are the only people in the world who know what it’s like to have been brought up the way you were."
- Betsy Cohen
October 17, 2024
"I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister."
- Erin Morgenstern
October 17, 2024
"In the cookies of life, sisters are the chocolate chips."
- Anonymous
October 17, 2024
"A sister is a friend you don’t have to avoid the truth with."
- Michelle Malm
October 17, 2024
"A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life."
- Deborah Tannen
October 17, 2024
"A sister travels with you always. She is only a whisper or a thought or a prayer away.She moves through our lives with us."
- Roxie Kelley
October 17, 2024
"Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister?"
- Alice Walker
October 17, 2024
"Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer."
- Louise GlĂĽck
October 16, 2024
"How do people make it through life without a sister?"
- Sara Corpening
October 16, 2024
"When my sister, Joan, arrived I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvelous friend she’s been, I’m so glad my parents didn’t take me at my word."
- Maeve Binchy
October 16, 2024
"Your sister is a jewel, a priceless, one-of-a-kind gem who makes living precious for many people, including you."
- Dave Pipitone
October 16, 2024
"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."
- George R.R. Martin
October 16, 2024
"Often, in old age, the sisters become each other’s chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and their relationship to each other’s children, they . . . carry the echoes of their mother’s voice."
- Margaret Mead
October 16, 2024
"Sisters make the best friends in the world."
- Marilyn Monroe
October 16, 2024
"The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend."
- Cali Rae Turner
October 16, 2024
"Parents are just parents, brothers are just brothers, best friends are just best friends, even husbands are just husbands, but sisters – well, sisters are the ones to whom sisters always turn in times of joy or trouble, celebration or crisis."
- Lorraine Bodger
October 16, 2024
"I’m the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don’t have anything. It’s hard. I love her too much. That’s what counts."
- Venus Williams
October 16, 2024
"Sister. You are not only a strong woman, you are the strongest tie to the best years of my life."
- Melanie J. Pellowski
October 16, 2024
"We’ll always fight, but we’ll always make up as well. That’s what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other’s frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we’ve had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time."
- Lisa See
October 16, 2024
"Sister you were the one I always told on, now you’re the friend I always lean on. I count my blessings everyday for you."
- Catherine Pulsifer
October 16, 2024
"As you’re growing up and you’re close, you can’t trust anyone the way you trust your sister, but also they have the power to wound you in ways no one else really does."
- Ally Condie
October 16, 2024
"A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life."
- Isadora James
October 16, 2024
"Acquaintances were always on their best behavior, but sisters loved each other enough to say anything."
- Lauren Weisberger
October 16, 2024
"There’s nobody in the world that knows me better than my sister."
- Tia Mowry
October 16, 2024
"Sisters are best friends, they are advisors, they are teachers, and best of all they are people with whom you can talk with about anything – someone you have a special bond with!"
- Catherine Pulsifer
October 16, 2024
"You can kid the world, but not your sister."
- Charlotte Gray
October 16, 2024
"A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves—a special kind of double."
- Toni Morrison
October 16, 2024
"She’s always there for me when I need her; She’s my best friend; she’s just my everything."
- Ashley Olsen
October 16, 2024
"A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost."
- Marion Garretty
October 16, 2024
"I could never love anyone as I love my sisters."
- Little Women film adaptation (1994) writer
October 16, 2024
"She is my sounding board, my confidante, my keeper of secrets – and my best friend."
- Kathleen O’Keefe
October 16, 2024
"When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?"
- Pam Brown
October 16, 2024
"Having a sister is like having a best friend you can’t get rid of. You know whatever you do, they’ll still be there."
- Amy Li
October 16, 2024