If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.

I discovered, quite early in motherhood, that the longest and most painful deliveries occur when you give birth to stepchildren.

If you're willing to travel, or just super-desperate, the best place in the world to meet unattached men is on the Alaska pipeline. I'm told that the trek through the frozen tundra is well worth the effect for any woman who wants to know what it feels like to be Victoria Principal.

every one of us possesses a gene predisposing us toward rivalry, competition, and fits of envy with any past, present, or future siblings.

The strongest common bond between the genders is the universally acknowledged truth that both men and women are unhappy with their hair.

Your sister is the only creature on earth who shares your heritage, history, environment, DNA, bone structure, and contempt for stupid Aunt Gertie.

My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.