Toni Morrison Quotes

I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period. I think that when you're close with a sibling, especially a sister, it's a relationship unlike any other.

The theme of sisters - of missing sisters, of needing sisters, the special love that sisters share or the antagonism sisters share - is something that is very close to me.

I think I am a pretty good sister.

I love having a sister. Its a great relationship that you dont understand unless you have one, I guess.

I think I would have liked to have been a twin... Sometimes my sisters and I get mistaken for twins, and I always take it as a compliment.

Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams.

I'm very close to my sisters.

As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.

I'm insanely close to my sister.

I think it is important to remember that there are so many different ways to be sisters.

We hug, but there are no tears. For every awful thing that's been said and done, she is my sister. Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life. She is the only person left in the world who shares my memories of our childhood, our parents, our Shanghai, our struggles, our sorrows, and, yes, even our moments of happiness and triumph. My sister is the one person who truly knows me, as I know her. The last thing May says to me is 'When our hair is white, we'll still have our sister love.

My relationship with my sister is so central to my life. She's my closest friend, my biggest supporter, and I know she would say the same about me.

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.

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.

But whenever she thanks the givers for favors great and small, she thinks of the good little sister who gave her more than they all.

Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.

Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it's your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most.

I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.

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.

Daniel, my big brother, is eight years older. I'm lucky he didn't mind hanging out with his little sister and my younger brother.

A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.

I do have a sister - I have two sisters.

My big sister Melissa, is such a stud and my little sister Suzanna, has always had a perfect body and big blue eyes. We were a force.

Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.