Top 100 Quotes About Sisterhood
#1. All governments needed to remain under suspicion during their time of power including that of the Sisterhood itself. Trust no government! Not even mine!
Frank Herbert
#2. 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
#3. Beneath the great sisterhood of stars unfurling in the night sky ...
Pat Conroy
#4. What I found in Kabul was a sisterhood unlike any I had seen before, marked by empathy, laughter, courage, curiosity about the world, and above all a passion for work.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#5. We would live together and weave out lives into one another's and hold on to a sacred sisterhood that only a handful of women ever experienced.
Kiera Cass
#7. 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
#8. To live! like a tree alone and free,
To live! like a forest in brotherhood/sisterhood ...
Nazim Hikmet
#9. I felt like I was being carried over the threshold of a sisterhood of loss. I knew I was not walking alone, and that eventually I would bob back up to the surface of the deep, because the women around me showed me what healing looks like.
Anna White
#10. A Savvy Auntie knows that sisterhood and friendship are organic, transforming and growing as life goes on.
Anonymous
#11. Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
William Cobbett
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Participating in a sisterhood with other women is hugely important in my life and a source of joy.
Christy Turlington
#15. Sophie seemed to understand sisterhood. Sometimes sisters need to shut their mouths and drop it. This was definitely one of those times.
Joanna Wylde
#16. The club of Marlott alone lived to uphold the local Cerealia. It had walked for hundreds of years, if not as benefit-club, as votive sisterhood of some sort; and it walked still.
Thomas Hardy
#17. 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
#18. 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.
Bell Hooks
#19. Well, if it's for a paper, then my honest answer is that I think sororities are bad. I think they're terrible, actually. I think they make girls feel awful about themselves under the guise of sisterhood.
Kimberly McCreight
#20. It was not just friendship that we are attached to each other, it was sisterhood that made that bonding between us, but now that love doesn't exist anymore as people changes with time- that's reality.
Debolina
#21. 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
#22. I think women are amazing and women's friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film.
Laurie Holden
#23. I want to weep too, not for me but for us all
for rich or poor, educated or illiterate, here we are finally reduced to a sameness in this sisterhood of deprivation.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#24. 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
#25. Goddess of immemorable cloudy veils, reveal your magickal powers so we may re-attune our psyches to your multi-dimensional realities and thereby draw your power to heal this worldly habitat and return it to the provocative Sisterhood of Your Milky Way.
Lady Svetlana
#27. One woman is a tiny divine spark in a timeless sisterhood tapestry collective;
All of us are Wild Women.
Jan Porter
#28. We can have unity in diversity and diversity in unity. We don't have to be like one another to enjoy sisterhood.
Barbara W. Winder
#29. 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
#30. Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke ... She will need her sisterhood.
Gloria Steinem
#31. She was playing it like we had an affinity because we'd both been thrown over by you. The 'Dumped by Gideon Sisterhood.'"
He glanced at me with cold eyes. "Don't be catty. It doesn't suit you.
Sylvia Day
#32. Adoption would become a priority in our churches if our churches themselves saw our brotherhood and sisterhood in the church itself rather than in our fleshly identities.
Russell D. Moore
#33. For a better, happier, more stable and civilized future, each of us must develop a sincere, warm-hearted feeling of brotherhood and sisterhood.
Dalai Lama
#34. With the relaxing environment of sisterhood and education they were so striving for. Well, obviously. But nobody seemed worried about whether or not Addison felt she had sisterhood, or a relaxing environment for education. She had nothing. Her father had been killed in front of her only days
Maisey Yates
#35. And by the same token she is hated by the twisted and lascivious sisterhood of married spinsters whose husbands respect the home but don't like it very much. Dora
John Steinbeck
#36. Marshall perched hesitantly beside me.
"They asked me to protect you."
My eyes widened. "What? Who did? The Sisterhood?"
"No, the Teletubbies did. Of course, the Sisterhood." Marshall rolled his eyes at me, and it took all of my will power not to shove him off the bench.
Chanelle Gray
#38. One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.
Dalai Lama XIV
#39. As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
Bell Hooks
#40. Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
#41. The realization that we are all basically the same human beings who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering is very helpful in developing a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood; a warm feeling of love and compassion for others.
Dalai Lama
#42. Of all the secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood the most divine was humor.
Rebecca Wells
#43. Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, 'You can't be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the unions, the vegans.'
Naomi Wolf
#44. Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.
Camille Paglia
#45. Here's to our enduring sisterhood. May it bind us together more tightly that the Lycra in my Spanx underpants.
Susan McBride
#46. Our melanin will always make us marvelous ...
Just imagine what that sea of sisterhood would look like. Magic!
Alexandra Elle
#47. 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
#48. Sophia Mercer," Elodie intoned, "we have come to induct you into our sisterhood. Say the five words to begin the ritual."
I blinked at her. "Are you freaking kidding me?"
Anna gave an exasperated sigh. "No, the five words are 'I accept you offer, sisters.
Rachel Hawkins
#49. I had to follow her 24/7 for weeks. It's suppose to be their way of keeping track of the Sisterhood. They make the new guys do it because it's boring and if you get caught you look like a sex offender.
Lisa Roecker
#50. Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood
In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?
William C. Bryant
#51. The purpose of the Sisterhood of Librarians is to keep the secret of creative juice and keep the idea of libraries alive.
S.A. Tawks
#52. Near or far, there are burdens and terrors in sisterhood, and perhaps the nearer, the more complicated.
Helen Yglesias
#53. I just feel like, for whatever reason, female playwrights don't really ask me to do their plays. Nothing would make me happier than finding the sisterhood, but I can't make them.
Anna D. Shapiro
#54. I describe Soldiers And Sisterhood as the literary equivalent of a chocolte biscuit - all the fun and and none of the calories.
Andrew Nicholson
#55. I threw everything we had together - the strong roots and stems and leaves and beautiful soft blossoms of sisterhood - into the earth with you. And I was left standing on the edge, so diminished by the loss that I thought I could no longer be there.
Rosamund Lupton
#56. Sisterhood is a funny thing. It's easy to recognize, but hard to define.
Pearl Cleage
#57. 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
#58. The girls are all talking and laughing, trying to get pumped up and for just one small sliver of a moment, I stop. Taking it all in because this is something I've really missed over the last year. The comradery of a team. The sisterhood of hockey players. Girls who have your back.
Jennifer Sucevic
#60. Again, speaking for the sisterhood, if you gave all that devotion and loyalty to a woman and she was a good woman, I swear, honey, you will live every day for the rest of your life until your dying breath never regretting it.
Kristen Ashley
#61. For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.
Dolly Parton
#62. 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.
Leymah Gbowee
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age.
Ann Brashares
#66. When I look around at this world, we women need each other so badly, it breaks my heart. Sisterhood is dissipating, and we aren't doing nearly enough to salvage it. Eliminate the crazies in your life, yes. But also look again at those around you.
Grace Gealey
#67. There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment-and surprise.
Christine Downing
#68. 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
#69. A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.
William Shakespeare
#70. But we're all so different, we're different ages; we're not vying for the same roles. There's no competition, there's really kind of a sisterhood, on and off the set, you know?
Jeanne Tripplehorn
#71. It's more than Fifth Harmony, the girl group - it's a sisterhood.
Camila Cabello
#72. There was no other place I loved so well as this one."
"Me as well,"... For all the places I've loved, there have been none like this. This place is a deeper love, a sisterhood of water and sand and soul. A place where you fill me through my eyes and my ears, Father.
Lisa Wingate
#73. Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.
Nellie L. McClung
#74. Set my pride aside in the name of preserving our sisterhood, because I cannot imagine a world where one can regard her sister as a stranger.
Sarah Jio
#75. We knew that there could be no real sisterhood between white women and women of color if white women were not able to divest of white supremacy, if feminist movement were not fundamentally anti-racist.
Bell Hooks
#76. How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be.
Rebecca Wells
#77. I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.
Maya Angelou
#78. Overall women in our society are forgetting the value and power of sisterhood. Renewed feminist movement must once again raise the banner high to proclaim anew Sistehood is powerful.
Bell Hooks
#79. 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
#80. 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.
#81. 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
#83. Sisterhood is powerful. Woman can support each other as women, in their pursuit for enlightenment or anything else, without fear. But as long as she's still in the commodities exchange market, buying and selling, she must fear the competition.
Frederick Lenz
#84. The irony of Christianity is that believers get so angry, and self righteous toward other Christians who sin differently than they do. Christianity is like one large fraternity where brother and sisterhood is tested by hazing.
Shannon L. Alder
#86. Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by acts of will.
Olga Broumas
#87. Female bonobos form a strong sisterhood. They rule through female solidarity.
Frans De Waal
#88. We come forth tonight," she bagen, "in the name of Sisterhood , to bring new Sisters into our fold. We present to you an oppurtunity, young Sisters. We are the new face of women. Our leadership will bring the dawn of a new era.
Kay Cassidy
#89. Because there's one thing stronger than magic: sisterhood.
Robin Benway
#90. 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
#91. The sisterhood of librarians is a non-profit organisation and our goal is to keep imagination alive, not make money.
S.A. Tawks
#92. Hasten Little Maiden
...
stop and listen
for pearls of wisdom
stop and listen
as the river glistens ...
Muse
#93. If you can master the opening, you will be leaps and bounds ahead of the competition.
Darynda Jones
#94. You are blood. You are sisters. No man can break that bond.
Kim Boykin
#95. But whenever she thanks the givers for favors great and small, she thinks of the good little sister who gave her more than they all.
Phoebe Cary
#96. The placement of a perfect perfumed turd passive-aggressive zinger is equal to the flush of an orgasm. It is sublime.
Angela Ricketts
#97. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.
Anais Nin
#98. "The less random stuff you hear about, the more room in your ears for music, that's what I always say" -Paisley
Lynn Weingarten
#99. something about the phrase - something about
how i have to be unlike the women
i call sisters in order to be wanted
makes me want to spit your tongue out
Rupi Kaur
#100. So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.
William Shakespeare
