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“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.”

Love Feelings Spiritual Peace Compassion Kindness Essence Bases Inner Peace Buddhist Compassionate Brotherhood Sisterhood Love And Compassion

Author:Dalai Lama

“Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)

“Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.”

“A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.”

“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.”

“I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable.”

Cutting Eating Mirrors Good Things Drinking Phones Scales Stable Sisterhood Phone Calls Wintergirls Cutting Myself

Author:Laurie Halse Anderson

“You can kid the world, but not your sister.”

“So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.”

Two Together Grew Unions Lovely Stem Best Friend Sisterhood Seeming Cherries Berries Cute Friendship Partition Midsummer Midsummer Night's Dream Mid Summer Nights Dream

Author:William Shakespeare

“We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will?”

Source: The Peach Keeper: A Novel

“there is more to this hijab than the whole modesty thing. These girls are strangers to me but I know that we all felt an amazing connection, a sense that this cloth binds us in some kind of universal sisterhood.”

Knows Kind Whole Girl Felt Connections Universal Stranger Modesty Sisterhood Hijab

Book:Does My Head Look Big in This?

Source: Does My Head Look Big in This?

“When death comes…. I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what it’s going to be like, that cottage of darkness? And therefore I look upon everything as a brotherhood and a sisterhood, and I look upon time as no more than an idea, and I consider eternity as another possibility, and I think of each life as a flower, as common as a field daisy, and as singular, and each name a comfortable music in the mouth, tending, as all music does, toward silence, and each body as a lion of courage, and something precious to the earth. [from the poem "When Death Comes"]”

“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.”

Source: Conversations with Maya Angelou

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

Might My Sister Stillness Sibling Sister Sisterhood Siblings Sisters Other Sister Baby Sister Funny Sister Sisters Friendship Cute Sisterhood Inspirational Sisterhood Like A Sister Funny Sisterhood Inspirational Sister Sister Friend

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first 'no.' And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.”

Ifs Inspirational Firsts Women Power Positive Empowerment Corners Empowered Empowering Women Sisterhood Harness Around The Corner Empowered Women Women Empowering Women Inspirational Women Women Power

Author:Cher

“Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.”

Giving Firsts Beauty Sisterhood

Author:Fay Weldon

“I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.”

People Want Equality Entitled Organize Sisterhood

Author:Patricia Ireland

“I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.”

Want Absolutes Equality Empowering Women Sisterhood Secured

Author:Agnes Macphail

“The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.”

Culture Social Women Principles Rights Progress Diversity Social Justice Injustice Equality Womens Rights Extensions Sisterhood Social Progress Basic Principles

Author:Charles Fourier

“Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.”

Needs Government Women Rights Movement Equality Womens Rights Empowering Women Sisterhood

Author:Charlotte Bunch

“Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.”

Ifs Views Development Understood Equality Point Of View Empowering Women Sisterhood

Author:Jenny Shipley

“There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.”

Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes

“We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.”

“Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

“Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister.”

Source: The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1903-1917

“Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don't love you they are connected to you till you die. You can be boring and tedious with -sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends.”

“You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.”

“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.”

“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.”

“Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.”

“In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend.”

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

Kissing Winter Ice Sisterhood Chastity Nun

Book:The works of Shakespeare in seven volumes

Source: The works of Shakespeare in seven volumes

“We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.”

“But however you might rebel, there was no shedding them. They were your responsibility and there was no one to relieve you of them. They called you Sis. All your life people called you Sis, because that was what you were, or what you became - big sister, helpful sister, the one upon whom everyone depended, the one they all came to for everything from help with homework to a sliver under the fingernail.”

People Helping Bigs Might Responsibility Helpful Rebel Homework Sisterhood Fingernails Big Sister

Book:Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West

Source: Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West

“Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together.”

“I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. 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 is powerful.”

Powerful Sibling Sister Sisterhood Thank You Sister

Book:Upstairs in the Garden: Poems Selected and New, 1968–1988

Source: Upstairs in the Garden: Poems Selected and New, 1968–1988

“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”

“The realization that we are all basically the same human beings who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering is very helpful in developing a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood; a warm feeling of love and compassion for others.”

Trying Humans Feelings Inspiration Suffering Human Beings Compassion Warm Realization Developing Helpful Brotherhood Sisterhood Love And Compassion Compassion For Others

Author:Dalai Lama

“But whenever she thanks the givers for favors great and small, she thinks of the good little sister who gave her more than they all.”

Thinking Littles Favors Thanks Giver Sisterhood Little Sister

Book:Ballads for Little Folks

Source: Ballads for Little Folks

“I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.”

Knows Real Age Mother Mom Computer Daughter My Daughter Freak Sisterhood

Author:Florence Henderson

“For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.”

“But we're all so different, we're different ages; we're not vying for the same roles. There's no competition, there's really kind of a sisterhood, on and off the set, you know?”

Knows Kind Different Age Roles Competition Sisterhood And Off Different Ages

Author:Jeanne Tripplehorn

“Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.”

Wells Two Friendship Memorable Sisterhood Lost Friendship Well Dressed

Author:Laurie Colwin

“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.”

Men Needs Strength Men And Women Hunger Plenty I Want You Fullness Sisterhood Softness I Need You

Author:Anais Nin

“I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.”

Want Submission Empowering Women Sisterhood

Author:Anais Nin

“If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.”

Ifs Knows Men Loss Money He Man Gains Weight Boring Obsessed Empowering Women Sisterhood Saving Money American Woman Fidgeting

Book:The Best of Marya Mannes

Source: The Best of Marya Mannes

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

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