Quotes About Sisterhood

Nance is funny that way. She likes women her own size--like your sister. She knows where she is with a woman like Martha. Whereas Molly--she's so--well, so full of life, she makes Nance feel even sicker.

I know about me. I am the moons sister, a tidal child stranded on land. The sea always in my ear, a surf of eternal discontent in my blood.

Can't hear… call back… good luck…" Nïx, I know you're faking the static." She could picture her sister blowing into her fist directly at the receiver. The static abruptly stopped. Why?" It seemed less rude than the alternative." What's that?" Click.

Can't hear… call back… good luck…" "Nïx, I know you're faking the static." She could picture her sister blowing into her fist directly at the receiver. The static abruptly stopped. "Why?" "It seemed less rude than the alternative." "What's that?" Click.

Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go; girlfriends were forever.

She pitied everyone who didn't have a sister.

I'm my mother's first child, born when she was almost fourteen years old. "Think of it," I said to Laura when I turned twelve. "I'm almost Mother Sarah's age when she was married." Laura looked at me, her squinty eyes even more narrowed. "You could have your own old man as a husband," she said. "Shut up," I had said. And she had laughed.

Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.

And Grace—meeting Grace has been like discovering a long-lost sister, a kindred spirit who's been out in the world all this time forging a nearly identical path.

The book of Ruth proves the point. "It is not good for the man to be alone" (Gen 2:18). The point being that men actually need their sisters to step up and answer God's call on their lives.

I'm here!" I said..."I'm read to go home!" As if they couldn't see me. As if I couldn't remember what it had been like, fluttering next to someone's ear and whispering into it. How the whole earth was like a musical instrument that we could play effortlessly. ...I could not fly. My sister was not there. My heart was broken.

Women were always the cruelest where other women were concerned.

My sister says she never seems to get it together . . . either her rear looks good or her face does.

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

AS I LEARNED TO FORGIVE MY SISTER, I LEARNED TO FORGIVE MYSELF FOR ALL THE TIMES I DID TO OTHER WOMEN WHAT I THOUGHT SHE HAD DONE TO ME.

matron of honor, that's where I'd advise you

it was one of the frickin' Golden Girls:

I'm so sorry about Payne, I wanted to talk to you, but she'd made up her mind. I tried to work with her, I really did, but in the end, I just . . . I didn't . . . I didn't want you to be the one to do it. I would have rather lived with the horrible truth on my conscience for an eternity than have you kill your sister. Or have her hurt herself even more than she was." - Jane

It's a twin type of telepathy. My sister and I, we share the same DNA, so on paper, we're the same person. I knew she was pregnant, like, right away - it's so crazy - but I asked her, and she said yes.

It's a plus to have a twin sister in the same tournaments.

Females should stand by each other, especially in an industry which seems to try so hard to pin us up against each other and make us fight. It's not about that for me. I refuse to be sucked into a twisted world of insecurity and lose who I am.

It was really helpful for me when I moved in with my sister, because she's the type of person that is confident in her body. I look up to her so much.

Every woman that dies or loses her baby on a threadbare cot in the heart of Uganda, while her sisters on the other side of the world enjoy first-class care, is a threat to our collective humanity.

I have no time for women who don't support other women. It's the ultimate compliment when a woman tells you that you look good.