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 . . .

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.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!"

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 . . .

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.

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.