Sisterhood Quotes - Page 4

• If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

  Marya Mannes

  Money, Loss, Men

  Marya Mannes (1986). “The Best of Marya Mannes”

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• There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.

  Mario Lopez

  Sports, Men, Car

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• I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

  Margaret Mead

  Funny, Hilarious, Peace

  "Quote Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, 1977.

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• As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

  Bell Hooks

  Race, Class, Long

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.27, Routledge

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• It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sibling, Heart

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• Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Sister, Sibling, Heart

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (1984). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1903-1917”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.

  Laurie Colwin

  Friendship, Memorable, Two

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• Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

  Gail Sheehy

  Birthday, Sister, Children

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• I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Strength

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• Sisters share the scent and smells... the feel of a common childhood.

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sibling, Smell

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• We wound up taking my enterprise inside marketing, branding, management, finances. We went in there [Sisterhood of Hip Hop show] and taught them a little bit about everything in hopes of them being able to have some takeaways that they'd be able to use in the future for their own careers. And I think we were pretty successful.

  MC Lyte

  Successful, Thinking, Careers

  Source: uproxx.com

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• Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

  Amelia Earhart

  Women, Airplane, History

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• If you're lucky on a team, even if you're not sisters or brothers, you become such a family that you get that kind of open and honest relationship. Where the chemistry is great and even if tempers flare, you forgive each other. I was always looking for a sisterhood. You're not always lucky enough to get that magical chemistry, but you can't win without it.

  Colleen Jones

  Brother, Team, Winning

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• A sister is the cure for swollen heads and ego trips. One may a star, a Chief Executive-famous and rich and beautiful. But one's sister has the family photo album. And a long, long memory. And a tendency to wink at one on Top Occasions.

  Pam Brown

  Beautiful, Stars, Memories

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• Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.

  Maya Angelou

  Jealous, Mean, Night

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• Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

  Fay Weldon

  Beauty, Giving, Firsts

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• I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

  Patricia Ireland

  Equality, People, Want

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• Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

  Jenny Shipley

  Equality, Views, Development

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• There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Sister, Sibling, Situations In Life

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.200

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• We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.

  Charlotte Gray

  Sister, Wise, Brother

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• Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Power, Men, He Man

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• So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

  Judy Chicago

  Education, Language, Building

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• Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

  Candace Bushnell

  Inspiring, Money, Powerful

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• Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty

  Practice, Political, Historical

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty (2003). “Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity”, p.24, Duke University Press

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• Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as the white keys.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Beautiful, Keys

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