Sisterhood Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

  Mary Schmich

  Funny, Birthday, Knowledge

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• A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Winter, Ice

  William Shakespeare (1733). “The works of Shakespeare in seven volumes”, p.238

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• I had a really good time on the show [Sisterhood of Hip Hop]. Most of all, what I've learned is I need to share what it is that I know.

  MC Lyte

  Hip Hop, Needs, Hips

  Source: uproxx.com

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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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• I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice. But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.

  Coretta Scott King

  Dream, Brother, Kings

  Reuters, March 31, 1998.

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• I learned, viscerally, something that I knew intellectually: that I cannot protect my daughter from the difficulties as she may encounter in her search for her own identity, and that she will be OK. She has a sisterhood to share the experience with, in addition to her family.

  Linda Goldstein Knowlton

  Daughter, Identity, Encounters

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Relationship, Marriage

  Chrestomathy (1949) ch. 30

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• I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!

  Alanis Morissette

  Hate, Artist, Excited

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• Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

  Toni Morrison

  Equality, Rights, Two

  Barnard College Commencement Address, May 1979.

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• There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

  Georges Pompidou

  Technology, Gambling, Three

  Sunday Telegraph 26 May 1968

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• The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Women, Equality, Rights

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• When death comes…. I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what it’s going to be like, that cottage of darkness? And therefore I look upon everything as a brotherhood and a sisterhood, and I look upon time as no more than an idea, and I consider eternity as another possibility, and I think of each life as a flower, as common as a field daisy, and as singular, and each name a comfortable music in the mouth, tending, as all music does, toward silence, and each body as a lion of courage, and something precious to the earth. [from the poem "When Death Comes"]

  Mary Oliver

  Flower, Thinking, Doors

  Mary Oliver, “When Death Comes”

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  Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first 'no.' And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

  Cher

  Inspirational, Positive, Women

  Interview with Christina Lessa, flattmag.com.

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• From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.

  Elizabeth Fishel

  Personality, Firsts, Arena

  Elizabeth Fishel (1985). “Sisters: Love and Rivalry Inside the Family and Beyond”, William Morrow & Company

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• I've been screwed by as many women as I have by men, in terms of lawyers. But lawyers don't count. If you take lawyers out of the equation, you have a more fair playing field. There is a sisterhood.

  Courtney Love

  Men, Fields, Lawyer

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. May 1, 2014.

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• Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

  Socrates

  Philosophical, Equality, Men

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• Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

  Hesiod

  Marriage, Wedding, Sorrow

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• We have set out on a quest for true humanity, and somewhere on the distant horizon we can see the glittering prize. Let us march forth with courage and determination, drawing strength from our common plight and our brotherhood [and sisterhood]. In time we shall be in a position to bestow upon South Africa the greatest gift possible--a more human face

  Steven Biko

  Determination, Drawing, Humanity

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• Sisterhood is powerful. It kills. Mostly sisters.

  Ti-Grace Atkinson

  Powerful

  "Death of revolutionary" by Susan Faludi, www.newyorker.com. April 15, 2013.

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• I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.

  Coretta Scott King

  Dream, Brother, Kings

  Reuters, March 31, 1998.

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