What are sisters?

Famous quotes containing the word sisters:

“Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.”
—Margaret Mead (1901–1978)

““Woe to my sister, false Helen!””
—Unknown. Binnorie; or, The Two Sisters (l. 55)

“The miller quickly drew the dam,
An’ there he found a drown’d woman.

You cou’dna see her yallow hair
For gold and pearle that were so rare.”
—Unknown. The Twa Sisters (l. 32–35)