Margaret Mead Quotes

In some ways, siblings, and especially sisters, are more influential in your childhood than your parents.

As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.

You would think none of my brothers have jobs with how much time they spend on the phone with our mom.

It can be the best of relationships and the worst of relationships - often at the same time. The bond between a mother and daughter is one of the strongest, but it's also among the most complicated.

I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a grandchild.

Blood is thicker than water, my mother had always said when I was growing up, a sentiment I’d often disputed. But it turned out that it didn’t matter whether she was right or wrong. They both flowed out of my cupped palms.

the experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table, is an inescapable, delightful and repelling, desired and abhorred part of each child's life.

Big sisters and brothers... I am telling you, it never changes.

I have always liked family-type dramas; I just think the dynamics in families make for some really interesting characters.

When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.

To me, families are puzzles that take a lifetime to work out - or not, as often is the case - and I like to explore how people within them try to connect, be it through love, duty, or circumstance.

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.

I love babies, and I have my nephews that I love. I have a great mom and she has raised three kids, so if I take lessons from her, I think I'll be great. All my friends have little brothers or sisters.

I couldn't really relate much to my younger sister, because she was born in 1992, and I was born in 1986. And then my older sister, we just didn't get on that much. Although we bonded over hating our stepdad.

'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.

I write about families. That is who we are.

For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between me and my sisters.

Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.

I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

I'm very close to my sisters.

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them.

I'm a mama's boy.

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

I'm used to being around kids. Even when I was growing up in London, I had an older sister, I had a younger sister that I used to look after from time to time.