WHO CAN RESIST a good one-liner? Not us TSP types. Along the way as we’ve worked on building our network, we’ve collected a few favorites, in the hopes that you’ll help us build the list. Got a sister quote to share?

“Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long.”–Susan Scarf Merrell, The Accidental Bond

“I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.”–James Boswell [click to continue…]

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LIKE WE ALWAYS SAY: If you want to be a better sister, read. What follows is the start of a nonfiction booklist for sisters (you may have seen the fiction list already).  Please add suggested additions in the comments space, so that with your help, the list can grow.

Sadie Delany

•HAVING OUR SAY: THE DELANY SISTERS’ FIRST 100 YEARS, by SARAH L. DELANY, A. ELIZABETH DELANY, and AMY HILL HEARTH An oral history of the lives of Sadie and Bessie Delany, conducted by Amy Hill Hearth during a series of interviews when the sisters were 101 and 102 years old. Sadie was the first African-American woman to be granted permission to teach Domestic Science in New York, and Bessie was the second black woman to receive a dentistry license in the state.  Their story is, in part, the story of the American civil rights movement. [click to continue…]

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