S Quotes
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“Sister," he murmured, not as an inquiry, but a statement of fact. "Brother mine," she groaned... before her consciousness slipped from her grasp and she drifted away. But she would come back to him. One way or the other, she would not leave her twin ever again.”
“Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by acts of will.”
“Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis”
Source: Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
“Sisterhood is a funny thing. It's easy to recognize, but hard to define.”
Source: Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot
“Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.”
Source: Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership
“Sisterhood is magical and medicinal - use it as a lifelong resource.”
“Sisterhood is powerful.”
Source: Upstairs in the Garden: Poems Selected and New, 1968–1988
“Sisterhood is powerful. It kills. Mostly sisters.”
“Sisterhood is powerful. Woman can support each other as women, in their pursuit for enlightenment or anything else, without fear. But as long as she's still in the commodities exchange market, buying and selling, she must fear the competition.”
“Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.”
“Sisterhood was about shared experiences, trust, knowing you had people who would be there for you and would listen to you no matter what, and who could always tell if there was something wrong. They were the ones who, with a single look, knew if you were about to burst into giggles or into tears and why, and who knew when you needed to get out of the house for a midnight trip to In-N-Out Burger to gorge on a milkshake and animal-style fries. They were the ones you could be raging angry with one moment, and completely forgive ten minutes later. She would always be there for her sisters, and they would always be there for her, because they loved each other no matter what.”
Source: Diamonds Are Forever
“Sisterly love is one of the few boons in this life.”
Source: My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles
“Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.”
Source: Three plays
“Sisters and brothers of my world, I do not believe in universal acceptance, for I am the very embodiment of universal acceptance. The river doesn't believe in the life-giving powers of its water - the sun doesn't believe in the warmth-giving powers of its rays - the wind doesn't believe in the soothing powers of its breeze. Belief implies an absence of proof, but acceptance is beyond proof. You do not believe that you need oxygen to live, likewise, you do not believe in universal acceptance, for without it, the very fabric of civilization will wither.”
Source: Time to End Democracy: The Meritocratic Manifesto
“Sisters and brothers of planet earth, we no longer have the childish luxury to talk about toleration, for it's time to act upon assimilation, it's time for universal acceptance.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.”
“Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.”
“Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.”
“Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.”
“Sisters are made by living everyday with each other and wearing each other down until the rough spots are smooth. They're made by sharing secrets you'd never tell mom, and out of doing things for each other just because you feel like it, not because you have to. I guess you could say sisters are 'grown,' not manufactured, in a very special place called a family.”
Source: The End of Forever
“Sisters are reliably good for two things: hating and loving.”
Source: The Favorite Sister
“Sisters are soldiers, comrades-in-arms, I recited. Sisters are always on the same side.
Shoulder to shoulder, steady on their feet. Sisters don't judge, or compare, or compete, she finished, a wistful ghost of a smile hovering over her lips.”
Source: Rise and Divine
“Sisters are supposed to be people you’re close to, aren’t they. You may not like them much, but you’re still close to them.”
Source: A Pale View of Hills
“Sisters are the true friends who ask how you are, and then wait to hear the answer.”
Source: Lucky Harbor Collection 1: Simply Irresistible, The Sweetest Thing, Head Over Heels
“Sisters are the worst. And they are the best. A sister can be awful and complicated and loving and protective and petty and competitive, and when you die she is the person you want beside you holding your hand. Somebody's gotta organize the potluck after the service and you know your husband's not gonna be up to the job.”
Source: Henry's Sisters
“Sisters are very lucky... They get to be best friends. Even in the afterlife, I think they recognize the presence of the other better than anyone else.”
Source: The Astonishing Color of After
“Sisters. Because we all need someone who will defend us behind our back and then call us on our shit to our face.”
“Sisters come back to one another, I think. When they're ready.”
Source: Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go
“Sisters come before carpet burns and blisters.”
“Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.”
Source: Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties
“Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling.”
“Sisters dress up to rehearse for what will really happen to them. But brothers, Elijah realizes, are never rehearsing that way. They rehearse their own illusions, until reality takes a turn and they are asked to rehearse for other things. You go to school. You graduate. You sell snack cakes. You hang up your cape and put on a suit.”
Source: Are We There Yet?
“Sisters forever,” Violetta declared, in her tiny, young voice.
Until death, even in death, even beyond.
“I love you,” Violetta says, hanging fiercely on to me even as my strength dies.
I love you too. I lean against her, exhausted. “Violetta,” I murmur. I feel strange, delirious, as if a fever had wrapped me in a dream. Words emerge, faint and ethereal, from someone who reminds me of myself, but I can no longer be sure I am still here.
Am I good? I am trying to ask her.
Tears fall from Violetta’s eyes. She says nothing. Perhaps she can no longer hear me. I am small in this moment, turning smaller. My lips can barely move.
After a lifetime of darkness, I want to leave something behind that is made of light.
Both of her hands cup my face. Violetta stares at me with a look of determination, and then she brings me to her and hugs me close. “You are a light,” she replies gently. “And when you shine, you shine bright.”
Source: The Midnight Star
“Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.”
“Sisters have ways of socializing brothers into the mysteries of girls. Brothers have ways of socializing sisters into the puzzle that is boys.”
“Sisters in battle, I am shield and blade to you. As I breathe, your enemies will know no sanctuary. While I live, your cause is mine.”
Source: Wonder Woman: Warbringer
“Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.”
“Sisters make the best friends in the world.”
“Sisters may walk on different paths, but they're never farther than a heartstring.”
Source: Find Them
“Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.”
“Sisters never stand a chance to be friends. We're pitted against each other from the moment that we are born. A daughter is a treasure. Two is a tax.”
Source: Yolk
“Sisters never stand a chance to be friends. We're pitted against each other from the moment we are born. A daughter is a treasure. Two is a tax.”
Source: Yolk
“Sisters of the torn shirts.
Sisters of the chase around the desk, casting couch, hotel room, file cabinet.
Sisters dragging shattered dreams, bruised hopes, ambitions abandoned in the dirt.
Sisters fishing one by one in the lake of shame.
Hooks baited with fear always come back empty.
Truth dawns slow when you've been beaten and lied to, but it burns hard and bright once it wakes.
Sisters, drop everything.
Walk away from the lake, leaning on each other's shoulders when you need the support.
Feel the contractions of another truth ready to be born.
Shame turned inside out is rage.”
Source: Shout
“Sisters ruin everything. It's in their job description.”
“Sisters share a bond unlike any other – thornier, but also tender, full of possibility.”
Source: Blood Water Paint
“Sisters share the scent and smells... the feel of a common childhood.”
“Sisters we gather,
In answer to the call,
To fulfill our destiny
As guardians this side of the wall.
“Where the fabric wears thin,
And our enemy’s at hand,
We must thrust him back
Into his own land.
“We honor our legacy
And before the night is done,
Sisters past, present and future
Will unite as one.”
Source: Reborn
“Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it's your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most.”
“Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors”
“Sisters, when about their work, should not put on clothing which would make them look like images to frighten the crows from the corn. It is more gratifying to their husbands and children to see them in a becoming, well-fitting, attire, than it can be to merely visitors or strangers.”