Sisterhood Quotes

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

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

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

We must continue to unite in sisterhood to turn our tears into triumph. There is no time to rest until our world achieves wholeness and balance, where all men and women are considered equal and free.

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

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.

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.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

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.

So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

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.

It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.

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.

Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.

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

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.

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

I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.

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.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

Sisterhood is powerful. It kills. Mostly sisters.

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.

Participating in a sisterhood with other women is hugely important in my life and a source of joy.

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

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

When our burdens are grievous to be borne, when we face a world in which it seems that there is only struggle and no rest, I hope we can remember the immense strength of our sisterhood, the reservoirs that we have within us, and the unfailing wellspring of the Savior’s love for us, even in the midst of adversity.

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.

Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite luxury of Socialism--that true Socialism which is based not on equality of income or character, but on the equality of manners. In the democracy of the caffè or the street the great question of our life has been solved, and the brotherhood of man is a reality. But it is accomplished at the expense of the sisterhood of women.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

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

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

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

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

Solidarity is not the same as support. To experience solidarity, we must have a community of interests, shared beliefs and goals around which to unite, to build Sisterhood. Support can be occasional. It can be given and just as easily withdrawn. Solidarity requires sustained, ongoing commitment.

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.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

Once women find sisterhood, there's nothing stronger.

Patti Callahan Henry’s THE STORIES WE TELL is a lyrical exploration of love and longing, secrets and suspicion, family and friendship, all told with the author’s trademark insights into the hollows and curves of the heart and mind of a working woman who must balance the demands of motherhood, wifedom, sisterhood, and yes, the deepest cravings for artistic expression. I always love the stories PCH tells!

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

The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

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

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.

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

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"]

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