Orson Scott Card Quotes

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.

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

I was the little sister that was annoying.

Everybody has fights with their sister.

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 always wanted siblings.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

They had asked for me because they wanted a younger girl, but Mum asked if she could bring Kylie along because she didn't want there to be any jealously.

I have two older sisters; I'm the youngest.

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.

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

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.

We all have competitive relationships with our siblings.

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 am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

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.

If you have, especially with siblings, something like the competition for mom's affection, it just never goes away.

Because I was the youngest boy, I was always my mom's favorite - and my brothers were always tough on me.