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Elizabeth Fishel Quotes

A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.

A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.

Elizabeth Fishel
Sister, Mirrors, Opposites

We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.

Elizabeth Fishel
Sister, Song, Differences

We are each other's reference point at our turning points.

Elizabeth Fishel
Turning Points
Elizabeth Fishel (1997). “Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties”, Red Wheel

What surprised me was that within a family, the voices of sisters as they're talking are virtually always the same.

Elizabeth Fishel
Talking, Voice
Elizabeth Fishel (1979). “Sisters: shared histories, lifelong ties”, Red Wheel

From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.

Elizabeth Fishel
Sisterhood, Personality, Firsts
Elizabeth Fishel (1985). “Sisters: Love and Rivalry Inside the Family and Beyond”, William Morrow & Company

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.

Elizabeth Fishel
Sisterhood, Mirrors, Who We Are
Elizabeth Fishel (1985). “Sisters: Love and Rivalry Inside the Family and Beyond”, William Morrow & Company

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.

Elizabeth Fishel
Friendship, Competition, Gold
Elizabeth Fishel (1997). “Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties”, Red Wheel

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

Elizabeth Fishel
Brother, Sibling, Harmony
"Forget poignancy, Arsenal prefer to deal in title significance" by Sachin Nakrani, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2008.

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
Dream, Blood, Profound
Elizabeth Fishel (1979). “Sisters: shared histories, lifelong ties”, Red Wheel

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.

Elizabeth Fishel
Family, Children, Differences
Elizabeth Fishel (1997). “Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties”, Red Wheel

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