#sisters

A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#sisters #nature

My sister Emily first declined. The details of her illness are deep-branded in my memory, but to dwell on them, either in thought or narrative, is not in my power. Never in all her life had she lingered over any task that lay before her, and she did not linger now. She sank rapidly. She made haste to leave us. Yet, while physically she perished, mentally, she grew stronger than we had yet known her. Day by day, when I saw with what a front she met suffering, I looked on her with anguish of wonder and love. I have seen nothing like it; but, indeed, I have never seen her parallel in anything. Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone. The awful point was, that, while full of ruth for others, on herself she had no pity; the spirit inexorable to the flesh; from the trembling hand, the unnerved limbs, the faded eyes, the same service exacted as they had rendered in health. To stand by and witness this, and not dare to remonstrate, was pain no words can render. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#emily-bronte #grief #illness #sisters #suffering

[S]isters could do a great deal for their brothers, if they would. ↗

— Isabella Macdonald Alden

#relationships #siblings #sisters #relationship

I don’t know why Kate was trying to impress him, as far as I could see the guy had all the allure and social grace of a psychotic slug with halitosis and a bad head cold. ↗

— Sharon Sant

#humour #quirky-characters #romantic-comedy #sisters #ya

Solidarity was admirable; loyalty was the person standing next to you when the devil came to call. ↗

— Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

#loyalty #sisters-sibling-rivalry #historical-fiction

Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#members #more #now #sisters #than

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#children #dated #daughter #feed #feminism

I have lots of brothers and sisters, two of whom are younger than myself, so I rely on my phone, text messaging or e-mailing to stay in the loop and communicate when I'm away for big chunks of time. ↗

— Devon Aoki

#big #brothers #chunks #communicate #i

I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends. ↗

— Alexa Vega

#consider #friends #i #mom #sisters

Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#between #characters #common #common denominator #denominator