A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.
Toni MorrisonAnger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling โ I don't think it's any of that โ it's helpless ... it's absence of control โ and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that โ I have no use for it whatsoever." [Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.]
Toni Morrison