Quotes About Sisterhood

A good thing they didn't know I was traveling with a trio of warrior women. I wouldn't have stood a chance alone.

After a girl is grown, her little brothers - now her protectors - seem like big brothers.

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.

No woman was an island. Together, we were an archipelago; together, we were a goddamn continent.

Here's something women need to stop doing to other women: We need to stop asking each other to lower our fees, cut our rates or work for free because we're members of the same sex.

I've always had an amazing connection with women - a real love of them.

Cardi B really is like having a sister in the industry. She's a real person, extremely humble. She's amazing.

Women born and raised on this fragile planet have more uniting us than dividing us - and it's the job of feminists to help us realise that.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

In the black sororities, they celebrate achievement academically, and they really do work toward community service. As much as the white sororities claim that's the case in their groups, it's not really so. White sororities focus on relationships.

I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around boys and men my whole life. I get them. I get men.

As Celia bent over the paper, Dorothea put her cheek against her sister's arm caressingly. Celia understood the action. Dorothea saw that she had been in the wrong, and Celia pardoned her. Since they could remember, there had been a mixture of criticism and awe in the attitude of Celia's mind towards her elder sister. The younger had always worn a yoke, but is there any yoked creature without its private opinions?

I'm very fond of you, Maggie; I shall never forget you," said Philip, "and when I'm very unhappy, I shall always think of you, and wish I had a sister with dark eyes, just like yours.

Rosamund, taken hold of by an emotion stronger than her own--hurried along in a new movement which gave all things some new, awful, undefined aspect--could find no words, but involuntarily she put her lips to Dorothea's forehead which was very near her, and then for a minute the two women clasped each other as if they had been in a shipwreck.

For me, it always goes back to what my mother taught me and my sisters. That all women are beautiful, and we should embrace each other.

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.

I'm just talking specifically of women's friendships. If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody.

I think women are amazing and women's friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film.

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.

Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.

There is a part of 'Wonder Woman' inside me and inside every woman, kind of that secret self that women share. We are all caretakers, giving birth, caring for our children and companions and loved ones.