Sister's Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of August. Take this opportunity to let your sister (and all of the women in your life - stepsisters, friends, etc...) know how much they mean to you.
- "No one knows better than a sister how we grew up, and who our friends, teachers and favorite toys were. No one knows better than she."
-- Dale V. Atkins - "Help one another, is part of the religion of sisterhood."
-- Louisa May Alcott - "She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the dark. She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days, she's the reason you wish you were an only child."
-- Barbara Alpert - "I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at."
-- Maya Angelou - "There's a special kind of freedom sisters enjoy. Freedom to share innermost thoughts, to ask a favor, to show their true feelings. The freedom to simply be themselves."
-- Anonymous - "Sisters touch your heart in ways no other could. Sisters share their hopes, their fears, their love, everything they have. Real friendship springs from their special bonds."
-- Carrie Bagwell - "Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says, "Do not abandon me."
-- Louise Bernikow - "Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions."
-- Ugo Betti - "I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends."
-- James Boswell - "Sisters share the scent and smells, the feel of a common childhood."
-- Pam Brown - "If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater."
-- Pam Brown - "Who sees to it that my head stays the right size?"
-- Pam Brown - "Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks; expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief; sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs that can undermine any tale you're telling."
-- Pam Brown - "An older sister is a friend and defender, a listener, conspirator, a counselor and a sharer of delights - and sorrows too."
-- Pam Brown - "Sisters are different. They heard the sobbing in the darkness. They lived through all your triumphs, all your favorites, all your loves and losses. They have no delusions. They lived with you too long. And so, when you achieve some victory, friends are delighted - but sisters hold your hands in silence and shine with happiness. For they know the cost."
-- Pam Brown - "A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea-pig in trying sledges and experimental go-carts. Someone to send on messages to Mum. But someone who needs you - who comes to you with bumped heads, grazed knees, tales of persecution. Someone who trusts you to defend her. Someone who thinks you know the answers to almost everything."
-- Pam Brown - "Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize, indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there, defending you against all comers."
-- Pam Brown - "When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?"
-- Pam Brown - "Loving a sister is an unconditional narcissistic and complicated devotion that approximates a Mother's love. Sisters are inescapably connected, shaped by the same two parents, the same trove of memory and experience."
-- Roxanne Brown - "Sisters - they share the agony and the exhilaration. As youngsters they may share popsicles, chewing gum, hair dryers and bedrooms. When they grow up, they share confidences, careers and children, and some even chat for hours every day."
-- Roxanne Brown - "One's sister is a part of one's essential self, an eternal presence of one's heart and soul and memory."
-- Susan Cabill - "One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself."
-- Betsy Cohen - "How do people make it through life without a sister?"
-- Sara Corpening - "What's the good news if you haven't a sister to share it with?"
-- Jenny De Vries - "I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one might not leave such stillness."
-- Emily Dickinson - "Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow."
-- Benjamin Disraeli - "If we believed in the media we would think the only significant relationship in our lives is a romantic one. Yet sisterhood is probably the one that will last longer than any other; a sister will always be around."
-- Jane Dowdeswell - "Every sister has a fund of embarrassing stories she can bring out at the most effective moment."
-- Pamela Dugdale - "Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring - quite often the hard way."
-- Pamela Dugdale - "A loyal sister is worth a thousand friends."
-- Marian Eigerman - "We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song."
-- Elizabeth Fishel - "A sister is both your mirror and your opposite."
-- Elizabeth 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 be."
-- Elizabeth 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."
-- Elizabeth Fishel - "A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost."
-- Marion C. Garretty - "Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer."
-- Louise Glück - "Sibling relationships outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust."
-- Erica E. Goode - "We may look old and wise to the outside world, but to each other, we are still in junior school."
-- Charlotte Gray - "You can kid the world, but not your sister."
-- Charlotte Gray - "There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young! "
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes - "A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life."
-- Isadora James - "Sisters examine each other so they can have a map for how they should behave."
-- Michael D. Kahn - "In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend."
-- Catherine Killigrew - "Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago - the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider. It doesn't seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we've traveled."
-- Jane Mersky Leder - "Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of. You know whatever you do, they'll still be there."
-- Amy Li - "We acquire friends and we make enemies, but our sisters come with the territory."
-- Evelyn Loeb
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