Sisterhood Quotes - Page 3

My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.

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"]

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.

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

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.

We can have unity in diversity and diversity in unity. We don't have to be like one another to enjoy sisterhood.

Because there's one thing stronger than magic: sisterhood.

How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be.

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

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.

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

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.

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

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.

Sisterhood is magical and medicinal - use it as a lifelong resource.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

Sisterhood is a funny thing. It's easy to recognize, but hard to define.

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.

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

But we're all so different, we're different ages; we're not vying for the same roles. There's no competition, there's really kind of a sisterhood, on and off the set, you know?

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

That is our vocation: to convert the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced.

There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment-and surprise.