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Sister Quotes - Page 6

A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.

A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.

Maria Monk, Theodore Dwight, John Jay Slocum, William K. Hoyte (1836). “Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: As Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice, and Two Years as a Black Nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal”, p.10, New York : Howe & Bates

I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.

Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.148, Harvard University Press

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.

1862 Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Goblin Market'.

I get in fights with my sister all the time. She comes on the road with me and we fight - like sisters do.

"GQ&A: Florence and the Machine". Interview with Catriona Gray, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. November 14, 2012.

It was around 4 p.m. in the afternoon. I was just taking a nap. Luckily, my sister was home.

Interview with Merlin Chowkwanyun, www.counterpunch.org. August 14, 2003.

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

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

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.139, Courier Corporation