Every articulate family ... generates its own stories, explanations and myths to illuminate the differences in temperament and talent among its children, the lines of allegiance and influence between parent and child.

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

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.

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

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

Every articulate family ... generates its own stories, explanations and myths to illuminate the differences in temperament and talent among its children, the lines of allegiance and influence between parent and child.

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