Sisterhood Quotes - Page 6

• I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.

  Maya Angelou

  Brother, Sibling, Believe

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• 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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• 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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  Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first 'no.' And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

  Cher

  Inspirational, Positive, Women

  Interview with Christina Lessa, flattmag.com.

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• 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"]

  Mary Oliver

  Flower, Thinking, Doors

  Mary Oliver, “When Death Comes”

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• 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

  Happiness, Philosophy, Thoughtful

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Toni Morrison

  Equality, Rights, Two

  Barnard College Commencement Address, May 1979.

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

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Sister, Sibling, Young

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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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• 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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• The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about 'shrieking sisterhoods' and 'disappointed spinsters' and rubbish of that sort.

  Nancy Astor

  Men, Rubbish, World

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

  Stanley Baldwin

  Trust, Men, Intuition

  "Brain Box". Book by Charles Phillips, p. 110, 2006.

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• 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

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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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• 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.

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• 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.

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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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• 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

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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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• 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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• 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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