Sisterhood Quotes - Page 7

• 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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  30 Copy quote

• There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Sister, Sibling, Young

  17 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

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

  Camila Cabello

  Girl, Groups, Harmony

  117 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

• I grew up with a lot of brothers and I don't have any sisters, so for me it's really important to develop my sisterhood. It's something I've always coveted.

  Mickalene Thomas

  Brother, Important, Grew Up

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I learned there's a tremendous amount of sisterhood among Muslim women, which I thought was really beautiful.

  Nia Long

  Beautiful, Muslim Women, Amount

  "The Root Interview: Nia Long on 'Mooz-lum' and Motherhood". Interview with Aisha I. Jefferson, www.theroot.com. February 18, 2011.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most of all, what I've learned is I need to share what it is that I know. And it's the whole reason I've done what I've done for as long as I've done it. It's that I'm able to use what I know in order to help someone else grow. And that's exactly what happened on Sisterhood of Hip Hop.

  MC Lyte

  Order, Long, Hip Hop

  "MC Lyte’s Current Mission Is To Educate The Next Generation Of Hip-Hop Leaders". Blograma.com Interview, www.blogarama.com. August 23, 2016.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• It turns out that a lot of women just have a problem with women in power. You know, this whole sisterhood, this whole let's go march for women's rights and, you know, just constantly talking about what women look like or what they wear, or making fun of their choices or presuming that they're not as powerful as the men around. This presumptive negativity about women in power I think is very unfortunate, because let's just try to access that and have a conversation about it, rather than a confrontation about it.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Fun, Powerful, Men

  Source: tech.fortune.cnn.com

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Love, Break Up, Marriage

  Quoted in PeopleWeekly, 11 Oct. 1976

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Equality, Reality

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

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Women, Media, Gossip

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.

  Unknown

  Hate, Power, Men

  "Who Won’t Be Voting for Trump" by Eliot Weinberger, London Review of Books, Volume 38, No.20, pp. 3-6, www.lrb.co.uk. October 20, 2016.

  74 Copy quote

  Show source

• My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Mom, Mother, Doors

  9 Copy quote

• Female bonobos form a strong sisterhood. They rule through female solidarity.

  Frans de Waal

  Strong, Female, Form

  10 Copy quote

• I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Drinking, Cutting, Mirrors

  25 Copy quote

• there is more to this hijab than the whole modesty thing. These girls are strangers to me but I know that we all felt an amazing connection, a sense that this cloth binds us in some kind of universal sisterhood.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Girl, Connections, Hijab

  Randa Abdel-Fattah (2014). “Does My Head Look Big in This?”, p.25, Scholastic UK

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me."

  Louise Bernikow

  Sister, Children, Sibling

  Louise Bernikow (1981). “Among women”, HarperCollins

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Not only did the terrorists hijack planes and destroy life, but they also hijacked the peaceful religion of Islam and split the brother and sisterhood of mankind.

  Cat Stevens

  Brother, Religion Of Islam, Peaceful

  4 Copy quote

• Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably well, with grace, humor, and fierce grit. Mock doesn't only redefine what realness means to her, but challenges us to rethink our own perceptions of gender and sexuality, feminism and sisterhood, making this book a transcendent piece of American literature.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Book, Mean, Journey

  17 Copy quote

• The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

  Julie Powell

  Writing, Skulls, Editing

  10 Copy quote

• This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.

  Anne Lamott

  Easter, Brotherhood, Awakening

  8 Copy quote

• Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room.

  Judith Thurman

  Fashion, Long, Feminism

  "Caring about clothes" by Judith Thurman, www.newyorker.com. September 25, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, 'I'm really inspired by your guitar playing.' I mean no disrespect to the sisterhood, but musically I feel more drawn to things like Dirty Projectors, the National and Grizzly Bear.

  St. Vincent

  Girl, Dirty, Mean

  13 Copy quote