Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!Emily Dickinson
We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.Emily Dickinson
I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.Emily Dickinson
I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.Emily Dickinson
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.Robert Frost