Quotes About Sisterhood

You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.

Sometimes my sister and I laugh so hard that we fall upon the floor, unable to speak or move, just shaking so hard that it is not clear if we are going to be able to survive our own happiness. It makes it hard to breathe.

Katie nosed at the carpet and then gave it a good chew. When it proved recalcitrant enough that she couldn't pull it up, she growled. "Who's a fierce little girl?" I asked her. "Who's going to kick butt and take names and help her big sister get into all kinds of trouble someday?" Devon snorted. "Sometimes, I think the term bad influence was invented specifically with you in mind.

Little Sisters' Survival Guide, rule number thirty-seven," Skylar said. "Scream before they hit you.

The ladies had reached that vaguely melancholy hour when they felt it necessary to tell each other their histories.

The] maid of honor - the unambiguous, grown-up equivalent of wearing best friend necklaces.

It occurs to me that as different as we are in our behavior and decisions, our most basic, knee-jerk emotional reactions to really big things are often remarkably similar. And it is in these moments that I am most grateful for my sister.

I love you like my own sister. Which is why I won't hesitate to tell you that I don't believe it.

Ich sehe nicht ein, warum nicht zwei Frauen ihren Weg voll Glück und Harmonie allein gehen können. Was brauchen wir die Männer!

No wonder the word 'feminism' was feared. It had been much too narrowly defined. I define a feminist as a self-empowering woman who wishes the same for her sisters. I do not think the term implies a certain sexual orientation, a certain style of dress or membership in a certain political party. A feminist is merely a woman who refuses to accept the notion that women's power must come through men.

When women have so absorbed the disease of sexism that they themselves can inflict it on each other, we clearly have a perfect, self-replenishing machine for the continuation of sexism. Unable to turn our assertiveness against men, we turn it against each other. Thus we remain stuck in the troubles we always had. It is imperative we renovate the machine -- no, not renovate it, but smash it entirely, so that we allow women to be all they need to be.

The funny thing is, the girls that I'm always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool, like Emma Watson. She's awesome.

Their story, as the Delany sisters like to say, is not meant as "black" or "women's" history, but American history. It belongs to all of us. (From the Preface of "Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years)

Sweet baby Jesus, what do I have to do? Sing Closer to Fine a hundred times to earn the password to the lesbian clubhouse?" She

Gymnastics demands so much of our time. We train all week and travel and compete on weekends. The people you're surrounded by really become your second family, your best friends, your sisters. My coach was like a second mother for me.

There were times I wouldn't leave my room for weeks and sometimes missed school because I hated how people would look at me. But my older sister helped me find the positive: She used to show me pictures of Alek Wek to say, 'See! You can be a model if you want!'

I feel like in pop music and even indie music, there's this weird thing where women have been pitted against each other.

It felt like home to be working with so many powerful women - Lizzo, Cardi B, Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu. I felt so welcome and loved.

The truth is is that we have to support each other - there's nothing that the powers that be' want more than women fighting with each other.

Girls' Generation was an important and precious time for me.

All my friends are girls. I just prefer the company of women.

If I can say so without sounding presumptuous, I want to model women being collaborative instead of competitive.

I work with my brother a lot, and we don't fight - probably because it's not two girls. And he's six years older. But I have daughters who are three years apart, and they fight all the time.

I wrote 'Kamala and Maya's Big Idea' because I don't want my daughters to think in euphemisms.