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My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often.

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

I have always had tremendous respect for my sister as an artist, as a woman, and now as a mother.

The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.

I couldn't really relate much to my younger sister, because she was born in 1992, and I was born in 1986. And then my older sister, we just didn't get on that much. Although we bonded over hating our stepdad.

My sister is not my mother, but more than anyone else, she fills that role for me now - like it or not. And indeed, all women I know play that role for somebody - like it or not.

My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.

My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.

My position in the family turned out to be a lucky one; I bore neither the brunt of my mother's newness to parenthood nor the force of her middle-aged traumas, as my younger sister, Ruth, did.

From a young age, I wanted to differentiate myself from my older siblings.