Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

- Elizabeth Fishel

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

- Elizabeth Fishel

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

- Elizabeth Fishel

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

- Elizabeth Fishel

A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.

- Elizabeth Fishel

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

- Elizabeth Fishel

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 i…

- Elizabeth Fishel

Every articulate family ... generates its own stories, explanations and myths to illuminate the differences in temperament and talent among its child…

- Elizabeth Fishel

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