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I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father, and trying to be a good father, I already have my work cut out for me.
David Charvet
Work
Good
Family
Me
Father
Big
Out
Brother
Given
Having
Had
Big Family
Five
Sisters
Trying
Being
Cut
Now
Good Father
The podcast by 'The Kitchen Sisters' celebrates the staggering variety of a society of immigrants via its food, from the Sheepherders' Ball in Boise, Idaho, through the favoured cuisine of Emily Dickinson to the unbelievable rituals of the great rural barbecue.
David Hepworth
Food
Great
Society
Immigrants
Rural
Unbelievable
Variety
Emily
Emily Dickinson
Kitchen
Through
Rituals
Idaho
Ball
Cuisine
Sisters
Via
Staggering
Barbecue
Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.
David Johansen
Mother
Old
Father
Three
Projects
Brothers
Until
Built
Years
Sisters
Six
Moved
Then
Lived
Two
Even having all the time in the world, it's better to collaborate with your brothers and sisters. It's ultimately the richest experience.
David Milch
Time
Experience
World
Better
Collaborate
Brothers
Brothers And Sisters
Having
Ultimately
Sisters
Richest
Your
Even
I have four sisters at home, and both my mom and dad worked, and both of them took care of us. It wasn't like my mom was fully domestic, or my dad was fully domestic: they were just equals in their relationship. So I grew up with the perspective that women should be pursuing their dreams and not have to depend on a guy.
Daya
Dreams
Home
Mom
Relationship
Women
Perspective
Care
Depend
Took
Guy
Both
Pursuing
Like
Equals
Were
Domestic
Up
Sisters
Just
Grew
Them
Us
Worked
Should
Mom And Dad
Fully
Dad
Four
For me, stories were brothers, sisters and friends, filling the long hours between childhood and adolescence, holding up a true mirror in which I might find out who I was rather than a distorted reflection of who I was expected to become.
Debi Gliori
Me
Reflection
Long
Mirror
Become
Holding
Distorted
Out
Find
Brothers
Adolescence
Rather
Long Hours
True
Between
Hours
Were
Up
Friends
Than
Sisters
Expected
Childhood
Stories
Which
Might
Who
Filling
I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I clubbed together and paid £4 for it in a junk shop. We collected owl pellets, ostrich eggs and sheep skulls for our natural history museum at home.
Deborah Moggach
Home
History
Together
Natural
Three
Sheep
Our
Collected
Bed
Hippopotamus
Sisters
Junk
Eggs
Owl
Shop
Six
Natural History
Next
Paid
Skull
Museum
Ostrich
My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.
Deborah Moggach
You
First
Drama
Several
TV
Must
Wrote
Sisters
Novel
Novels
Pakistan
Started
Set
For each other, at each other: Sisters can be either or both. The same could be said of people in any close relationship. Yet there is something special about sisters - specially gratifying and specially fraught.
Deborah Tannen
Relationship
People
Other
Fraught
About
Something
Both
Something Special
Could
Said
Close
Close Relationship
Sisters
Same
Any
Either
Special
Each
Gratifying
When women told me they'd always wished they had a sister, they were thinking of this ideal of mutual encouragement and support. Many of those who have sisters also yearn for this ideal because their relationships with their sisters don't always live up to it.
Deborah Tannen
Me
Women
Encouragement
Sister
Live
Thinking
Relationships
Those
Mutual
Had
Support
Ideal
Wished
Also
Because
Always
Were
Yearn
Up
Sisters
Who
Many
I wouldn't say that it's hard for sisters to treat each other with respect. Many do.
Deborah Tannen
Respect
Treat
Other
Say
Sisters
Hard
Many
Each
It's an interesting point about sisters not getting the same attention as parents and children, and even brothers. I suspect it's just because women didn't count that much and weren't the ones writing the accounts.
Deborah Tannen
Women
Writing
Parents
Brothers
About
Point
Count
Attention
Because
Were
Accounts
Sisters
Same
Suspect
Getting
Just
Children
Just Because
Interesting
Much
Even
Sisters, to me, are fascinating because it is a unique connection of the coming together of connection and competition. The fact that you have these age differences is a built-in power struggle, and the fact that you're all trying to get attention and resources from the same parents creates competition.
Deborah Tannen
Me
You
Struggle
Together
Age
Competition
Parents
Power
Differences
Resources
Fact
Attention
Because
Coming
Sisters
Get
Trying
Same
Creates
Connection
Fascinating
Unique
I have lots of brothers and sisters, two of whom are younger than myself, so I rely on my phone, text messaging or e-mailing to stay in the loop and communicate when I'm away for big chunks of time.
Devon Aoki
Time
Myself
Communicate
Phone
Big
Chunks
Stay
Brothers
Brothers And Sisters
Rely
Messaging
Loop
Text
Lots
Than
Sisters
Younger
Whom
Away
Two
I'm one of nine sisters. My parents were dairy farmers in Wisconsin. My father didn't believe in girls doing farm work. Girls did housework, and he hired young men to do farm work. I would have preferred to be outside.
Diane Hendricks
Work
Father
Men
Girl
Parents
Young
Farm
Believe
Dairy
Nine
Would
Outside
He
Wisconsin
Housework
Doing
Hired
Were
Sisters
Did
Young Men
Preferred
Farmers
Maureen O'Sullivan did 'Hannah and Her Sisters' with Mia Farrow, her daughter, but O'Sullivan had a very minor role.
Diane Ladd
Daughter
Minor
Had
Very
Role
Sisters
Maureen
Did
Hannah
Her
I passed the 11-plus and went up to the senior school, where my two older sisters had already gone. I was in the 'A' stream, but in the third year, they asked me to give up Latin; no one had ever got 7 per cent before.
Dick Strawbridge
Me
Stream
School
Year
Before
Gone
Older
Latin
Per
Give
Had
No-One
Got
Passed
Up
Sisters
Senior
Where
Cent
Asked
Ever
Two
Third
Growing up, for me, it was in a musical family, so my mum and her brothers and sisters always sang. Every time I tried to join their group when I was little, they were like, 'Ah, darling, you're not too good - just sit back and watch us.'
Dinah Jane
Time
Good
Family
Me
You
Sit
Group
Every
Too
Every Time
Back
Musical
Tried
Darling
Brothers
Brothers And Sisters
Join
Like
Always
Were
Up
Sisters
Just
Little
Us
Sang
Growing
Growing Up
Mum
Her
Watch
We are literally like sisters: you know their ins and outs; you know if something is on their mind, that something's bugging them. We know when something is going wrong, and that instinct you can feel instantly.
Dinah Jane
You
Mind
Something
Instantly
Wrong
Feel
Instinct
Like
Know
Bugging
Sisters
Going
Literally
Them
In my family, it was always encouraged to become a creative person. I became a doula instead, then I married an actor, and my sisters became famous almost overnight.
Domino Kirke
Family
Creative
Become
Married
Instead
Almost
Became
Always
Overnight
Encouraged
Sisters
Person
Famous
Then
Creative Person
Actor
I was really sheltered growing up, with six brothers and sisters. We played together all the time, and I was living in a fantasy world, like most creative people.
Edward Enninful
Time
Together
Creative
People
World
Living
Brothers
Brothers And Sisters
Like
Most
Sheltered
Up
Sisters
Six
Fantasy
Fantasy World
Really
Creative People
Growing
Growing Up
Played
When my mother, sisters and I arrived on the shores of America when I was 8 years old, the boat on which we came, a freighter, passed the Statue of Liberty.
Elaine Chao
Liberty
Mother
Old
Statue
Statue Of Liberty
Passed
Came
Arrived
Years
Sisters
America
Shores
Which
Boat
I joke that I've always had this sort of insatiable 'big sis' complex - which is odd given that I am the baby of the family with no sisters! It's the reason I have such a powerful desire to connect with girls and encourage them. So, it's a natural fit for me to have a job that's like the editorial version of an older sister to a million girls.
Elaine Welteroth
Family
Me
Natural
Job
Girl
Joke
Big
Sister
Older
Baby
Complex
Insatiable
Given
Had
Powerful
Like
Sort
Always
Am
Editorial
Odd
Encourage
Fit
Version
Sisters
Which
Them
Reason
Connect
Older Sister
Million
Desire
I know how much my mom has impacted my journey and how much I wouldn't be where I am without my mom. As much as she says she's proud of me, I'm even more so proud of her because of what she's done and how she's been able to raise me and my sisters.
Elana Meyers
Mom
Journey
Me
My Journey
Says
Able
Impacted
More
Know
She
Because
Without
Proud
How
Am
How Much
Been
Sisters
Done
Where
Much
Even
Her
Raise
My mother and her five sisters have always been living examples of the great love that can exist among sisters - and in a large family.
Elizabeth Berg
Love
Great
Family
Mother
Living
Great Love
Examples
Always
Been
Exist
Five
Sisters
Large
Large Family
Among
Her
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 be.
Elizabeth Fishel
Family
Our
Dare
Mirrors
Both
Within
Without
Up
Sisters
Hold
Who
Images
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