Siblings
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What causes sibling rivalry?
Having more than one kid.
—Tim Allen
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Your siblings are the only people in the world who know what it’s like to have been brought up the way you were.
—Betsy Cohen
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The greatest gift our parents gave us was each other.
—Unknown
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Siblings are the only enemy you can't live without.
—Unknown
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A sibling is both your mirror and your opposite.
—Elizabeth Fishel
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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
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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
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Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.
—Jeffrey Kluger
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Our sisters and brothers bring us face to face with our former selves and remind us how intricately bound up we are in each other's lives.
—Jane Mersky Leder
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My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder whose memories belong to whom.
—Shannon Celebi
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Once a brother, always a brother, no matter the distance, no matter the difference, no matter the issue.
—Byron Pulsifer
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I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance—waiting for the bathroom.
—Bob Hope
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What are siblings for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention?
—Claire Cook
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Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.
—Susan Scarf Merrell
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Losing a sibling means grieving the loss of a close relative and a best friend at the same time.
—Unknown
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There's nothing fiercer than the love of an angel sibling.
—Sara Millen
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The longest relationships of our lives
Examining the science of sibling rivalry
The psychology behind sibling rivalry
Siblings find support and friendship in each other
The lifelong gift of sibling friendship
Are siblings more important than parents?
Science looks at the sibling effect
A sibling fight survival guide
Six books that show no one can hurt you like a sibling
Here's to grown-up siblings and the ties that bind
Your adult siblings may be the secret to a long, happy life
How to maintain sibling relationships
For sibling battles, be a sportscaster, not a referee
It used to be okay for parents to play favorites
Birth order is basically meaningless
How to raise siblings who get along
Siblings share genes, but rarely personalities
The secret to success? Having a big sister
Dear Therapist: How do I hold boundaries with my sister at Christmas?
One more relationship tested by the pandemic: siblings
Siblings of the mentally ill can feel forgotten
Siblings with special needs change childhood
When older siblings step into parents' shoes
To save my sister, and myself, I had to walk away
Growing up undocumented when your siblings are citizens
On surviving the suicide of a sibling
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim