Deborah Tannen Quotes

Big sisters and brothers... I am telling you, it never changes.

We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.

For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between me and my sisters.

I think that your relationship is always changing with your siblings.

I have two younger brothers, and we're very close in age.

My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs.

I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.

Sibling relationships figure in a lot of my books. You don't often see relationships between adult siblings explored in fiction.

As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred.

We have two older brothers and two younger sisters; Sam and I are in the middle, and I've always felt protective and closest to him.

I was the little sister that was annoying.

I have three sisters, that's it for the family.

Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.

Certainly, people can get along without siblings. Single children do, and there are people who have irreparably estranged relationships with their siblings who live full and satisfying lives, but to have siblings and not make the most of that resource is squandering one of the greatest interpersonal resources you'll ever have.

Sometimes siblings can get in each other's space.

I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.

I've got six wonderful brothers and sisters.

I'm a middle child, and I have a younger sister who is stunning - just beautiful and smart.

In some ways, siblings, and especially sisters, are more influential in your childhood than your parents.

There is something about a guy who has a great relationship with his sisters.

I have two older sisters.

When you are one of six, your brothers and sisters become your best mates.

Siblings are often very opposite.

People say, 'Well, you're not Pau's little brother anymore.' I'm always going to be Pau's younger brother and Adria's older brother.

I have a very close family. I have four older siblings: two brothers and two sisters.