Deborah Tannen Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 can confidently say that I have a great relationship with my siblings, though I know not everybody does. I would hope that my children have a very similar relationship with each other.

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

I've always had this interest in sibling relationships because I don't have any siblings. I'm completely a product of the one-child policy in China, so I always kind of wished that I had an older brother or a younger brother or sister just to have that bond, so I find myself constantly writing about that relationship.

I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

I am obsessed with my sisters. Being the oldest, I probably just have that in me. But I also think I am the youngest sometimes. We all have moments when we are the maternal one of the group.

I have a great relationship with everyone in my family, but I'm closer to my brothers than anyone else because they give me a lot of guidance.

Sometimes siblings can get in each other's space.

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

I've got two brothers and two sisters, so there's five of us and we're all very close, which is cool.

I know friends who have this sort of incredibly intimate relationship with their sibling. And I don't get it: it wasn't like that in my family. In some ways, I'm envious, because they have someone that's so completely in their corner. And at the same time, I imagine it may at times feel like it's stunting.

I actually have seven brothers in real life, and we're all very close in age. We basically go no more than two years between any of us.

All my brothers and sisters are really witty, and I would just sit back and enjoy them.

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

I always wanted siblings.

I have a great relationship with all my brothers. I've got three other ones. There's four boys and two girls. It's a family business.

Once you've taken account of the quality of sibling relationships, knowing about the quality of parenting doesn't add much information.