Quotes About Sisterhood

A gift by women, for women.

We came together like months in a lunar year, measured in nights, dividing perfectly into female phases. Like women anywhere living in groups we had synchronous menses. And had no need of a wound, a puncture, to seal our bond.

In fact, thought Karen, women could get along perfectly fine without men altogether.

I love the idea of reading books as a brotherly, sisterly moral obligation to one's people.

Each man was my brother and each woman my sister. We were so very much alike. So fragile, impermanent, and easily destroyed.

There Is Nothing Like a Dame.

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.

The best accessory a girl can have is her best friend.

Silence fell, and I remembered that I was supposed to be running this. It reminded me in an odd way of the time I'd had to take over my sister's Girl Scout troop when my mother had been sick. Fourteen preteen girls, a tableful of werewolves—there were certain monstrous similarities.

Husbands come and go, children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

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

Do all the women in the world secretly know each other?" Sim asked. "Because that would explain a lot.

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

Hey, sister. What's your situation?" "On earth or in the universe?" He laughed and said, "All right!

Harriet, Georgiana, and Bess formed a bond so tight that Harriet would later say it "made it a rule never to conceal anything great or small from each other than concerned ourselves, and never to import anything that concerned our respective friends unless by their desire or consent." These women formed a confederacy of feminine freedom-a freedom they vigorously exercised.

Having another Christian woman who was dealing with cancer, one I could talk to, had been a real help.

If you don't annoy your big sister for no good reason from time to time, she thinks you don't love her anymore.

And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.

Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.

But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”

The sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam. Timna was Lotanís sister.

And Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad, because he hated Amnon for disgracing his sister Tamar.