--- title: "7 Sister Father Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 7 Sister Father quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Sister Father sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a14/david-elliott-30654_children_what-is-a-woman-her-brothers-sister-her_79931.jpg" --- > [“What is a woman? Her brothers' sister, her father's daughter, Her husband's wife, her children's mother”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-elliott/what-is-a-woman-her-brothers-sister-her-father-s-daughter-her-husband/) [David Elliott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-elliott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a14/david-elliott-30654_children_what-is-a-woman-her-brothers-sister-her_79931.jpg) > [“and sister and father and mother had. I was learning that when you’re with someone who is dying, you may need to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/and-sister-and-father-and-mother-had-i-was-learning-that-when-you-re/) [Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/917/will-schwalbe-3101_death_and-sister-and-father-and-mother-had-i-w_143851.png) > [“Lienid are so odd; your reactions are never what mine would be. You, so calm, when I’ve hurt you so badly. Your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kristin-cashore/lienid-are-so-odd-your-reactions-are-never-what-mine-would-be-you-so/) [Kristin Cashore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kristin-cashore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/015/kristin-cashore-369_parenting_lienid-are-so-odd-your-reactions-are-nev_646193.jpg) > [My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband, died when I was four…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orlando-bloom/my-childhood-was-kind-of-complicated-i-have-an-older-sister-but-my/) [Orlando Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orlando-bloom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/597/orlando-bloom-1693_childhood_my-childhood-was-kind-of-complicated-i-h_1326551.jpg) > [“Inside the room it was dark now, the florescent light behind my father flickering so slightly it lit only the most obvious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/inside-the-room-it-was-dark-now-the-florescent-light-behind-my-father/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4af/alice-sebold-999_parenting_inside-the-room-it-was-dark-now-the-flor_1724365.jpg) > [“Ah me! think, sister, how our father perished, amid hate and scorn, when sins bared by his own search had moved him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophocles/ah-me-think-sister-how-our-father-perished-amid-hate-and-scorn-when/) [Sophocles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophocles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f59/sophocles-370_parenting_ah-me-think-sister-how-our-father-perish_1783495.jpg) > [In 1930, when I was three and my sister was four, my father sent us to Miss Tracy's, a little 'dame's school'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/june-brown/in-1930-when-i-was-three-and-my-sister-was-four-my-father-sent-us-to/) [June Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/june-brown/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c9/june-brown-6655_father_in-1930-when-i-was-three-and-my-sister-w_2397779.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sister-father/#itemlist", "name": "Sister Father Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“What is a woman? 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And wouldn’t let anyone enter, not even the king.” “She wouldn’t let the king enter,” he repeated, puzzlement in his voice.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kristin Cashore" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kristin-cashore/lienid-are-so-odd-your-reactions-are-never-what-mine-would-be-you-so/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/015/kristin-cashore-369_parenting_lienid-are-so-odd-your-reactions-are-nev_646193.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/015/kristin-cashore-369_parenting_lienid-are-so-odd-your-reactions-are-nev_646193.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/015/kristin-cashore-369_parenting_lienid-are-so-odd-your-reactions-are-nev_646193.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Lienid are so odd; your reactions are never what mine would be. 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So I only had my mum and sister, really.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Orlando Bloom" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orlando-bloom/my-childhood-was-kind-of-complicated-i-have-an-older-sister-but-my/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/597/orlando-bloom-1693_childhood_my-childhood-was-kind-of-complicated-i-h_1326551.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/597/orlando-bloom-1693_childhood_my-childhood-was-kind-of-complicated-i-h_1326551.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/597/orlando-bloom-1693_childhood_my-childhood-was-kind-of-complicated-i-h_1326551.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My childhood was kind of complicated. 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I had played a hide-and-seek game of love with my mother as I grew up, courting her attention and approval in a way that I had never had to with my father. I didn't have to play hide-and-seek anymore. As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of the things that heaven meant. I had a choice, and it was not to divide my family in my heart. ~pg 154; Susie's family and heaven”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alice Sebold" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/inside-the-room-it-was-dark-now-the-florescent-light-behind-my-father/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4af/alice-sebold-999_parenting_inside-the-room-it-was-dark-now-the-flor_1724365.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4af/alice-sebold-999_parenting_inside-the-room-it-was-dark-now-the-flor_1724365.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4af/alice-sebold-999_parenting_inside-the-room-it-was-dark-now-the-flor_1724365.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Inside the room it was dark now, the florescent light behind my father flickering so slightly it lit only…” — Alice Sebold", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Ah me! think, sister, how our father perished, amid hate and scorn, when sins bared by his own search had moved him to strike both eyes with self-blinding hand; then the mother wife, two names in one, with twisted noose did despite unto her life; and last, our two brothers in one day,-each shedding, hapless one, a kinsman's blood,-wrought out with mutual hands their common doom. And now we in turn-we two left all alone think how we shall perish, more miserably than all the rest, if, in defiance of the law, we brave a king's decree or his powers. Nay, we must remember, first, that we were born women, as who should not strive with men; next, that we are ruled of the stronger, so that we must obey in these things, and in things yet sorer. I, therefore, asking the Spirits Infernal to pardon, seeing that force is put on me herein, will hearken to our rulers. for 'tis witless to be over busy.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sophocles" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophocles/ah-me-think-sister-how-our-father-perished-amid-hate-and-scorn-when/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f59/sophocles-370_parenting_ah-me-think-sister-how-our-father-perish_1783495.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f59/sophocles-370_parenting_ah-me-think-sister-how-our-father-perish_1783495.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f59/sophocles-370_parenting_ah-me-think-sister-how-our-father-perish_1783495.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Ah me! think, sister, how our father perished, amid hate and scorn, when sins bared by his own search had…” — Sophocles", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In 1930, when I was three and my sister was four, my father sent us to Miss Tracy's, a little 'dame's school' in Ipswich. I do remember playing with an abacus. 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