Sisterhood Quotes - Page 4

• 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.

  Marya Mannes

  Money, Loss, Men

  Marya Mannes (1986). “The Best of Marya Mannes”

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• I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

  Margaret Mead

  Funny, Hilarious, Peace

  "Quote Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, 1977.

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• There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.

  Mario Lopez

  Sports, Men, Car

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

  Bell Hooks

  Race, Class, Long

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.27, Routledge

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

  Laurie Colwin

  Friendship, Memorable, Two

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• It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sibling, Heart

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• Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Sister, Sibling, Heart

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (1984). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1903-1917”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

  Gail Sheehy

  Birthday, Sister, Children

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• I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Strength

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• Sisters share the scent and smells... the feel of a common childhood.

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sibling, Smell

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• We wound up taking my enterprise inside marketing, branding, management, finances. We went in there [Sisterhood of Hip Hop show] and taught them a little bit about everything in hopes of them being able to have some takeaways that they'd be able to use in the future for their own careers. And I think we were pretty successful.

  MC Lyte

  Successful, Thinking, Careers

  Source: uproxx.com

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• I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

  Patricia Ireland

  Equality, People, Want

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• Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

  Fay Weldon

  Beauty, Giving, Firsts

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• 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

  Commitment, Goal, Support

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.67, Routledge

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• 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

  Daughter, Identity, Encounters

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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

  Jealous, Mean, Night

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• 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

  Firsts, Empowering Women, Reason

  1928 20 Hours: 40 MinutesOur Flight in the Friendship, ch.5.

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• A sister is the cure for swollen heads and ego trips. One may a star, a Chief Executive-famous and rich and beautiful. But one's sister has the family photo album. And a long, long memory. And a tendency to wink at one on Top Occasions.

  Pam Brown

  Beautiful, Stars, Memories

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• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Civilization, Good Woman, Empowering Women

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.12, Harvard University Press

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

  Grace Kelly

  Family, Mom, Roles

  Attributed in "On Being Blonde: Wit And Wisdom From The World's Most Infamous Blondes" by Paula Munier, (p. 78), 2004.

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• I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

  John F. Kennedy

  Want, Empowering Women, Nervous

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.797, Best Books on

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• I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice. But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.

  Coretta Scott King

  Dream, Brother, Kings

  Reuters, March 31, 1998.

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• Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

  Jenny Shipley

  Equality, Views, Development

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• There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Sister, Sibling, Situations In Life

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.200

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• I had a really good time on the show [Sisterhood of Hip Hop]. Most of all, what I've learned is I need to share what it is that I know.

  MC Lyte

  Hip Hop, Needs, Hips

  Source: uproxx.com

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