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By AnonymElizabeth Fishel
A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.
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By AnonymElizabeth Fishel
Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.
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By AnonymElizabeth Fishel
Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.
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By AnonymElizabeth Fishel
Every articulate family ... generates its own stories, explanations and myths to illuminate the differences in temperament and talent among its children, the lines of allegiance and influence between parent and child.
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By AnonymElizabeth Fishel
From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.
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By AnonymElizabeth Fishel
Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.
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By AnonymElizabeth Fishel
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.
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By AnonymElizabeth Fishel
We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.
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