Sister Quotes - Page 8

I do not mourn the loss of my sister because she will always be with me, in my heart," she says. "I am, however, rather annoyed that my Tara has left me to suffer you lot alone. I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister. Then at least she would be here to mock my appearance and claim to be the pretty one for a change. We have all lost our Tara, but I have lost a part of myself as well.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

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.

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

Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.

Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

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.

Patti Callahan Henry’s THE STORIES WE TELL is a lyrical exploration of love and longing, secrets and suspicion, family and friendship, all told with the author’s trademark insights into the hollows and curves of the heart and mind of a working woman who must balance the demands of motherhood, wifedom, sisterhood, and yes, the deepest cravings for artistic expression. I always love the stories PCH tells!

Sisters make the best friends in the world.

I'm not the easiest person to live with. I'm kind of a slob. So for me to consider a roommate, it would have to be one of my sisters or something.

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.

In love we are all brothers and sisters

There were once two sisters who were not afriad of the dark because the dark was full of the other's voice across the room, because even when the night was thick and starless they walked home together from the river seeing who could last the longest without turning on her flashlight, not afraid because sometimes in the pitch of night they'd lie on their backs in the middle of the path and look up until the stars came back and when they did, they'd reach their arms up to touch them and did.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high or higher than we are. . . .

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

My sister just had a baby. We can have company over. She'll be in front of everyone with her um... breast... out feeding it. You know... cereal or whatever.

It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

I was on Facebook. I'm not anymore, but my sister always sends pictures to a page. I'm sure you can find a Bradley Cooper there.

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.

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.