Robert J. Waldinger Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I am the oldest of seven. Do my siblings think I'm super cool? I wish they thought I was super cool!

Sometimes siblings can get in each other's space.

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

I interviewed more than 100 women about their sisters, but if they also had brothers, I asked them to compare. Most said they talked to their sisters more often, at greater length and, yes, about more personal topics. This often meant that they felt closer to their sisters, but not always.

I grew up with brothers in real life.

I have two older sisters.

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

If one sibling does something, the other will fill the opposite role. I found, at least for my brother and I in real life, that seems to be a thing.

If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.

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.

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 have 10 brothers and sisters.

I was the little sister that was annoying.

I do have siblings, but I don't have any brothers.

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've got six wonderful brothers and sisters.

Birth order is fascinating, and it is forever.

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