Quotes and Sayings About Sisterhood
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Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.
-- Albert Einstein -
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
-- Amelia Earhart -
Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.
-- Amelia Earhart -
I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.
-- Anais Nin -
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.
-- Anais Nin -
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.
-- Ann Brashares -
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 -
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 -
As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
-- Bell Hooks -
Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
-- Bill Cosby -
Great women scholars like Jane Harrison and Gisela Richter were produced by the intellectual discipline of the masculine classical tradition, not the wishy-washy sentimentalism of clingy, all-forgiving sisterhood, from which no first-rate book has yet emerged. Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.
-- Camille Paglia -
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 -
Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
-- Candace Bushnell -
Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
-- Carolyn Heilbrun -
Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis
-- Chandra Talpade Mohanty -
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.
-- Chieko N. Okazaki -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik -
From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.
-- Elizabeth Fishel -
Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.
-- Elizabeth Fishel -
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong -
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
-- Fionnula Flanagan -
Female bonobos form a strong sisterhood. They rule through female solidarity.
-- Frans de Waal -
It will never be altogether well with us till we convert the universe into a prayer room, and continue in the Spirit as we go from place to place.... The prayer hour is left standing before God till the other hours come and stand beside it; then, if they are found to be a harmonious sisterhood, the prayer is granted.
-- George Bowen -
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 -
Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.
-- Grace Kelly -
Now, we are agreed, I and my destinies. The total world, Above, below, whate'er is seen or known, And all that men, and all that gods enact, Hopes, fears, imaginations, purposes; With joy, and pain, and every pulse that beats In the great body of the universe, I give to the eternal sisterhood, To make my peace withal! And cast this husk, This hated, mangled, and dishonour'd carcase Into the balance; so have I redeem'd My proper birthright, even the changeless mind, The imperishable essence uncontroll'd.
-- Hartley Coleridge -
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
-- Helen Keller
