“I'm really lucky because my sister is a real activist soul and also hyper-intellectualized in this way that's really allowed me to wrap my mind around some of the bigger intellectual concepts and really understand the language around identity in the gender nonconforming community.” WayMindRealSoulLanguageCommunityIdentityLuckyIntellectualConceptsBiggerGenderActivistMy SisterWrapsHyper Author:Lena Dunham
“The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married. If my brother gets hit by a car tomorrow, my sister-in-law will go on living materially in the same way that she does now. If the same thing happens to me, a great deal of what I have will go off to the taxman. That's because of one of, as you doubtless know, eleven hundred federal laws that favor marriage.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayKindDoeHappensFacesLawResultsDealsCarBrotherGoes OnTomorrowGayMarriedHundredFinancialBurdenAbsenceFavorsThings HappenAll KindsMy BrotherMy SisterElevenIn-lawsGay PeopleSister In LawFinancial Burden Author:Andrew Solomon
“The first four months of my life were spent in care, before I was adopted by my wonderful parents - my mum and dad - Ernie and Christine. They went on to adopt my sister, who is profoundly deaf, and invested both of us with a love and support that informs everything I do today.” FirstsCareTodayParentSupportFourWonderfulMonthsDadMy SisterMumAdoptedDeafMum And DadChristineWonderful Parents Author:Michael Gove
“My parents grew up in poor families where little English was spoken, they both went to college and became teachers. They believed that anything was possible with hard work, and they particularly stressed the importance of education. They instilled that same belief in my sister and me.” LittlesHardBeliefParentPoorTeacherCollegeHard WorkGrewGrew UpImportanceMy SisterStressedImportance Of EducationPoor Family Author:Samuel Alito
“My mother worked for more than a decade before marrying. She went to New York City to get a master's degree. And she continued to work as a teacher and a principal until she was forced to retire.Both she and my father instilled in my sister and me a deep love of learning.” MotherFatherCitiesTeacherNew YorkMastersDegreesDecadesNew York CityRetiringMy SisterPrincipalDeep LoveMarryingLove Of Learning Author:Samuel Alito
“I have been shaped by the experiences of the people who are closest to me, by the things I've learned from [my wife] Martha, by my hopes and my concerns for my children, Philip and Laura, by the experiences of members of my family, who are getting older, by my sister's experiences as a trial lawyer in a profession that has traditionally been dominated by men.” PeopleMenChildrenHas BeensWifeMembersConcernMy FamilyMy WifeProfessionLawyerTrialsMy ChildrenI've LearnedMy SisterClosestGetting OldGetting OlderPhilipThings I've LearnedLauraTrial Lawyers Author:Samuel Alito
“I grew up with two sisters, no brothers. There was Ronny who produced "Happy Days" for me and my sister Penny who acts, directs - she does everything. So they were very strong women in my life.” DoeTwoStrongBrotherGrewGrew UpMy SisterVery StrongStrong WomenPenniesHappy DayTwo Sisters Author:Garry Marshall
“After I got kicked out of CalArts, I moved to Lawrence Kansas where my sister lived. I began working on A William S. Burroughs documentary. I had no idea it would turn into such a big film.” IdeasBigsFilmTurnsMovedNo IdeaMy SisterDocumentariesKansasBurroughs Author:Yony Leyser
“My sister and the baby she was carrying died in the United States of America. They died in the country that spends more money on pregnancy and birth technology than any other country in this world.” WorldCountryStatesAmericaUnitedTechnologyUnited StatesThis WorldBabyBirthDiedPregnancyMy SisterMore MoneyOther CountriesUnited States Of America Author:Robin Lim
“Like my sister, 981 women die every day on Earth from pregnancy and birth-related complications.” EarthDiesBirthRelatedPregnancyMy SisterComplication Author:Robin Lim
“My sister had health insurance; she should have been warned by her doctors that she was at risk. But she was a minority. The doctors took little interest in her as an individual, and she fell through the cracks. And died.” ShouldLittlesHas BeensIndividualInterestRiskShould HaveDoctorsDiedMinoritiesCracksMy SisterShould Have Been Author:Robin Lim
“I had lost my sister recently, too, which meant that my whole family was gone. I was the baby of the family. There were five Sendaks and there were five Wild Things, and now there's only one Sendak, and he's about to bite the dust, too! Life, as I said before, was very difficult at that time and so it was natural that there would be a change in the look of things. Also, I was very impressed with my own strength in doing this under the circumstances in which I was living.” LooksSaidWholeWould BeLostDifficultNaturalMy OwnGoneFiveBabyCircumstancesDustBitesMy SisterImpressedWhole FamilyWild Things Author:Maurice Sendak
“My sister had her own room. She also had innumerable boyfriends. I had a yo-yo collection that was beyond belief, and the reason I had it was mostly that I would stand in the doorway of the living room watching her and her boyfriend. Finally she caught on how to get this kid out of the way. Give him a yo-yo!” WayGivingReasonKidsBeliefRoomsCaughtCollectionsMy SisterLiving RoomDoorways Author:Maurice Sendak
“Then one day my sister abandoned me at the 1939 World's Fair, and that incident is the essence of In the Night Kitchen. I was standing there with hundreds of other people waving back at the little midgets dressed like bakers when I turned around and my sister was gone! The next thing I know I'm screaming and crying and policemen are taking me to a big place with tons of kids who had all been abandoned like me. At least I was old enough to give them a name and an address.” PeopleKnowsWorldGivingLittlesEnoughBigsKidsNightNextNamesGoneCryOne DayFairsStandingEssenceLike MeKitchenAddressesMy SisterAbandonedIncidentsPolicemenBakersStanding ThereMidget Author:Maurice Sendak
“My relationship with my sister is so central to my life. She's my closest friend, my biggest supporter, and I know she would say the same about me.” KnowsMy SisterClosestSupporterClosest Friends Author:Emily Giffin
“When I got into film school, it really formed a sense of who I am and my sense of feeling like an outsider. If there was some greater purpose to do this, it would be so that future generations - my kids or my sister's kids - would grow up seeing themselves in their media culture in a way that I didn't. If The Mindy Project or Master of None were on when I was growing up, I wonder if I would be interested in doing this at all” IfsWayFeelingsWould BeKidsSchoolFilmPurposeCultureGrowsWonderGrowing UpGreaterGrowingSeeingGenerationsMediaMastersProjectsWho I AmMy SisterOutsidersFuture GenerationFilm SchoolGreater Purpose Author:Meera Menon
“I think it killed my sister as the times she was living in were so conformist. This is a subject I really want to deal with. I want to start making films about female rage.” ThinkingWantFilmDealsSubjectsFemaleRageMy SisterConformist Author:Nan Goldin
“These novels [Zombie, My Sister, My Love] are so special to me. [I don't expect that they will have nearly the same significance to anyone else.] They represent a kind of fiction I would love to pursue more or less constantly, but dare not.” KindFictionNovelSpecialDarePursueSignificanceMy SisterZombieSpecial To Me Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“I was the youngest kid. When I was five, my sisters were 17, 19, and 21, already becoming women. I would see how different they would be around one another and around men, even my father.” MenDifferentWould BeKidsFatherFiveBecomingMy SisterBecoming A Woman Author:Christian Louboutin
“I didn't experience the negative side of [Adolf] Hitler. My sister [Eva Braun] did, that's a big distinction.” BigsSidesNegativeDistinctionMy Sister Author:Gretl Braun
“Whatever anybody wants to say about my sister, [Eva Braun] was always beautifully dressed with a great flair for fashion. [Adolf] Hitler was not this way.” WayWantFashionMy SisterFlair Author:Gretl Braun
“I was so lucky. I had a dad and a mom that loved me and my sisters so much. My Uncle Mike and Uncle Frank were married. They must be together for fortysomething years now. Long story short, there was never any stigma attached to that. At the youngest age, I remember my dad saying, "Sometimes men love men and women love women. It's nature.” MenYearsLongSometimesStoriesAgeTogetherRememberMomDadLuckyMarriedMen And WomenMy DadMy SisterFrankUnclesMikeStigmaSo LuckyLong Story Author:Michael Buble
“I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower.” LittlesSchoolSmartOkayMy Sister Author:Kim Kardashian
“Me and my sisters all have such different body types.” DifferentBodyTypeMy SisterBody Types Author:Kim Kardashian
“When I was a kid I used to scoot under the table, and whenever company would come around you know or my sisters or parents would tell me, go under the table and I'd do it because it was entertainment for the family or aunts or whatever. And one time at the Paramount when I first did it, you know, Brooklyn Paramount, I did it in the act during an instrumental and it got a big ovation and so I coined it as one of the things I should do in the act. And since I've been doing it.” KnowsShouldFirstsBigsKidsUsedParentCompanyTablesEntertainmentMy SisterOne TimeAuntBrooklynParamountOvation Author:Chuck Berry
“I saw in Chicago, on the street where I was visiting my sister-in-law, this "Urban Renewal" and it means one thing: "Negro removal." But they want to tear the homes down and put a parking lot there. Where are those people going? Where will they go? And as soon as Negroes take to the street demonstrating, one hears people say, "they shouldn't have done it." The world is looking at America and it is really beginning to show up for what it is really like. "Go Tell It on the Mountain." We can no longer ignore this, that America is not "the land of the free and the home of the brave."” PeopleWorldWantMeanDoneShowsHomeAmericaLawSawsOne ThingStreetsLandTearsMountainDown AndBraveChicagoMy SisterUrbanRenewalIn-lawsVisitingParkingRemovalDemonstratingParking LotLand Of The FreeSister In LawUrban Renewal Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“I met Mary [Hamill] in New York at my exhibition and when I told her about my oral history project she asked, "Would it be possible to incorporate visual art?" My sister stitches pillowcases, which led to Mary suggesting using cyanotype on them. I originally thought of the idea of pillowcases because when people get married, they have the bride and the groom lay their hands on each other's pillows while their relatives tie ribbons on their wrists. And then on the bed you usually have two pillows - one for yourself and one for your loved one - so when one is gone, one pillow remains.” PeopleArtTwoIdeasHandsGoneNew YorkMetsBedProjectsMarriedRemainsLaysTiesVisualsMy SisterLoved OnesMaryPillowBridesWristsSuggestingExhibitionsRibbonsVisual ArtStitchesOral HistoryPillowcases Author:Chath Piersath
“Some people have witnessed the killing of their husbands, or they survived other horrific things. My sister is a widow but her husband was killed after the Khmer Rouge. There are different periods in which violence has occurred, and differences in how these women became widowed and how they survived afterwards.” PeopleDifferentDifferencesViolencePeriodsHusbandKillingMy SisterSurvivedWidowsHorrificRougeWidowedKhmer Rouge Author:Chath Piersath
“I don't look at anything. Every person whether he is Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist, he is my brother, my sister. I think we all do like that.” ThinkingLooksPersonsBrotherBuddhistMy BrotherMy Sister Author:Mother Teresa
“About 10 minutes [into the dinner] my sister texted me and said, "Maria, I just wanted to let you know that you're on TV live. You're front and center." I thought, 'Oh God, I'm right behind Donald Trump and in the camera shot. After that I stopped moving. I just sat there. It was funny. I was delighted that people noticed my white gloves. It was a white tie dinner, for the dais you had to be in white tie. If I can't channel my best Sophia Loren glamour for a white tie affair, when can I? I thought it was an excellent opportunity to wear the white gloves.” PeopleIfsKnowsSaidI CanWantedMovingOpportunityWhiteBehindsMinutesFrontsTvsTrumpShotsCamerasAffairDinnerExcellentTiesSatMy SisterGlamourDelightedGlovesSophia Author:Maria Bartiromo
“In some ways a mark of good parenting is that you don't try to make your children into little knockoffs of yourself. None of us went into business. None of us became powerful people like that. All of us pursued our own passions and our own interests. One of my brothers was filmmaker. One of my brothers was a teacher. My sister was a librarian.” PeopleWayTryingChildrenLittlesPassionInterestPowerfulTeacherBrotherMarkOur ChildrenYour ChildrenFilmmakerMy BrotherMy SisterPursuedLibrarianGood ParentGood ParentingKnockoffs Author:Bill Ayers
“I hate that blacks and Hispanics are pitted against each other I really do, call me naive, I grew up in an adopted family where my mom is Christian and Caucasian, my dad is Jewish, my sister is Mexican and I don't know, I don't tan so well. I think I'm mostly Irish.” ThinkingKnowsWellsChristianHateGrewMomDadGrew UpI HateMy DadMy MomCall MeMy SisterAdoptedNaiveMexicanCaucasian Author:Andrew Breitbart
“Yorgos Lanthimos said, "What about if he's a bit soft?" And I said, "Yeah, I think you're right." He just comfort-eats a little bit too much. He's just asleep in his own life and has let himself go. And the mustache, I don't know if it was him or I suggested it. But I remember my sister was watching me eat and she was like, "God, does he have to be fat?" And in retrospect I couldn't think of David being any other way because it affected the way I moved. It really did. It slowed me down in a way that I felt was conducive to kind of tapping into the spirit of the character.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayKindLittlesDoeSaidCharacterRememberSpiritFeltBitsToo MuchComfortLittle BitYeahMovedFatsAffectedMy SisterRetrospectMustacheTapping Author:Colin Farrell
“I remember my sister and I - my big sister would get up on her chair in the kitchen and sing Mary Wells' "What's Easy for Two Is So Hard for One." It was 1966, and I was 10 years old.” YearsWellsTwoHardBigsRememberEasyGet UpKitchenChairsMy SisterMaryBig Sister Author:Sharon Jones
“To me, it's normal. We summered in Vermont, and me and my sister Ilyasah went to one of the top ten schools in the country [the Hackley School].” CountrySchoolTenNormalMy SisterVermont Author:Malaak Shabazz
“My sister is as responsible for anyone for giving me good taste in music.” GivingTasteResponsibleMy SisterGood TasteTaste In Music Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda
“My support group - my mom, my dad, my sisters, my brothers-in-law, my immediate nieces and nephews, my immediate family like Aunt Donna - I know I can trust them. Most of the other people...they never called me before, they never said "I love you" before, they never wanted to take a picture with me at family reunions. It's like, don't do it now...You win the lottery and all of a sudden everybody's your best friend.” PeopleKnowsSaidI CanWantedLawWinningSupportGroupsLove YouBrotherMomDadMy DadMy MomMy BrotherMy SisterAuntIn-lawsLotteryReunionYour Best FriendNephewNieceFamily ReunionSupport GroupsBrother In LawNiece And NephewImmediate Family Author:Carrie Underwood
“I was raised in a musical family - 5 girls and 1 boy - so all of us girls don't do gender. We were all made to believe that we could do anything we wanted and so we did. One of my early bands was with my sisters. I didn't really come across a lot of problems because I just didn't see it. I took myself seriously and so everyone else did too - this is my mantra.” BelieveMadeProblemWantedGirlBoysBandRaisedMusicalGenderMy SisterMantras Author:Suzi Quatro
“My middle name is Nicole. It's so weird because my mom is from El Salvador, but my sisters and I have Irish names - Christy, Kelly, and Erin. And Christy and Kelly, they're not even girls' names! In Ireland, they're boys' names. And somehow, my mom was in El Salvador dreaming about Shamrocks before we were born.” DreamGirlNamesBornBoysMiddleMomMy MomMy SisterIrelandNicoleEl SalvadorErinShamrocks Author:Christy Turlington
“My sister is a teacher, so I am a strong support of teachers, but I'm not going to be bound by just a certain way of talking about these things, in order for us to move forward on behalf of our kids.” WayKidsMovingCertainOrderStrongTalkingSupportTeacherBoundsMoving ForwardMy SisterBehalfWay Of Talking Author:Barack Obama
“I was bullied by my siblings and cousins, so make-believe was a way in which I could be in charge. When I was like 10 and my sister was about five, I convinced her that she was going to jail because she used a bad word. The doorbell happened to ring, and I told her it was the police. I made her pack her bags. She was crying, and then I said to her, "I forgive you, and I'm gonna tell the cop to go away." Then, of course, she loved me. It was terrible - she still remembers it. I had a sordid sense of humor.” WayBelieveMadeSaidStillsRememberUsedCoursesFiveHappenedCryTerriblePoliceForgivingConvincedRingsBagsGoing AwayJailSense Of HumorMy SisterCopPacksCousinSiblingBulliedMake BelieveMy SiblingsI Forgive YouBad Word Author:Lupita Nyong'o
“My parents, God bless 'em, were very supportive of me and my decision to pursue acting. Their dream for me and my sister was that we graduate from college. And as soon as I fulfilled that, they were extremely supportive of what I wanted to do next. I will always be grateful to them for that, because I wouldn't be where I am today without their help and encouragement.” HelpingDreamTodayWantedNextParentDecisionActingCollegeEncouragementGratefulPursueEmsBlessMy SisterGraduatesFulfilledBe GratefulSupportiveGod Bless Author:Michael Ealy
“My whole life I saw how the violence my father created had come back to my family and I thought that I would only make things worse for my mother and my sister if I sought to avenge my father. I had to dare to take a path of peace.” IfsWholeMotherFatherPathSawsViolenceMy FamilyDareWhole LifeMy Sister Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“My sister, my mother and I are great friends. We have always valued our immediate family immensely, something we learned from my father.” MotherFatherMy SisterGreat FriendImmediate Family Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“I remember my dad watched a lot of TV that we watched, too. I remember watching Saved By The Bell because me and my sister watched it, and my dad kind of watched it with us, too, while he was cooking or whatever he was doing in the kitchen.” KindRememberTvsDadCookingMy DadSavedKitchenMy SisterBells Author:June Diane Raphael
“My parents put me in sports when I was 5 years old, and they put my sisters in sports. So that's what I grew up with, that mentality: "It's OK to want to be the best. Aggression is good." You have to have that little walk on the court or down the track. I love to put that into my female characters, because I don't think enough girls are taught that at a young age.” ThinkingWantYearsLittlesEnoughCharacterAgeYoungGirlSportsParentWalksTaughtGrewGrew UpFemaleCourtTrackBeing The BestMy SisterMentalityAggressionYoung AgeFemale Characters Author:Gina Prince-Bythewood
“My sister was like my surrogate mother here, in Washington, with very much of the same persuasions as my mother. Even when friends came from home that I knew were more socially adaptable to the mores of the time, she would always caution me and say, "Be careful if you're going out with so and so because you know such and such a thing could happen." It was that kind of guardianship, and concern that imprinted me.” IfsKnowsKindHomeHappensMotherConcernCarefulMy SisterBe CarefulGoing OutPersuasionCautionAdaptableSurrogatesGuardianship Author:David C. Driskell
“I think my criticism of the Pentecostal tradition that I heard with my sister's church was that it wasn't always audible. You couldn't quite figure out what was going on. And then, the people would very often do what they call speaking in tongues and I didn't know what they were saying. My father used to always say that if it can't be understood, then it's not the good news or not the gospel.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsUsedFatherChurchHeardFiguresNewsUnderstoodTraditionCriticismTongueMy SisterGood NewsPentecostalSpeaking In Tongues Author:David C. Driskell
“I grew up with a sense of tolerance. I don't know that there was any talk about gender differences. It was respect for people. So when I became a professional and saw that there were a lot of differences in the sense of how people lived their lives, I became respectful of their territory, of their thoughts and their ideas, and it was never a problem for me to feel that this is my sister, this is my brother.” PeopleKnowsFeelsIdeasProblemDifferencesSawsBrotherGrewGrew UpGenderToleranceMy BrotherTerritoryMy SisterRespectfulGender Differences Author:David C. Driskell