Sisterhood Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• That is our vocation: to convert the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced.

  Henri Nouwen

  Space, Fearless, Enemy

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.64, Image

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• I think women are really vicious in the work place, they're really jealous, really competitive. Women are emotional, they cry in toilets. The sisterhood only extends as far as the kitchen door. Men talk in logic and rational terms, they don't squark and make a noise.

  Katie Hopkins

  Jealous, Men, Emotional

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• Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.

  Louise Mensch

  Hair, Eyebrows, Focus

  "We're not all ogres". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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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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• When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Giving, Cynical

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• Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

  Bill Cosby

  Communication, Men, Infancy Is

  Bill Cosby (1989). “Love & Marriage”

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• The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

  Amelia Earhart

  Strong Women, Jobs, Winning

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• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Character, Ornaments

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.139, Courier Corporation

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• Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Inspirational, Marriage, Husband

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

  Michael M. Honda

  Equality, Equal Pay, Issues

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• Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

  Erica Jong

  Women, Equality, Feminist

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• Sometimes religion becomes yet another source for more division and even open conflict. Because of that situation, I feel the different religious traditions have a great responsibility to provide peace of mind and a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood among humanity.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Responsibility, Humanity

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• It's more than Fifth Harmony, the girl group - it's a sisterhood.

  Camila Cabello

  Girl, Groups, Harmony

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• I'm glad to be part of that brand and be a part of something that Hugh Hefner did. And it's a sisterhood - all the girls are sisters. You go there and it's a big old family. Once you're a Playmate you're a Playmate for life.

  Alyssa Arce

  Girl, Bigs, Glad

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• Softball has given me so much in life. It's taught me the kind of person I want to be, and given me a sweet sisterhood. It even led me to my husband.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, Sweet, Husband

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• I think women are amazing and womens friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film.

  Laurie Holden

  Thinking, Television, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The thing about guitar players is we're all like a brotherhood or sisterhood. We don't care if you're great, good, bad, in between or whatever. As long as you love it, then we're all going to help each other.

  Tommy Emmanuel

  Player, Guitar, Long

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• The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Dog, Writing, Skulls

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.37, Hamilton Books

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• An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sibling, Sorrow

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