Quotes on Sisterhood

The good news is when we are in full-on sisterhood, women are the most powerful, political force in America.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see, I sought my god, but my god eluded me; And then I sought my sisters and my brothers, and in them I found all three.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice. But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.

Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

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.

A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.

I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.

Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.