Bell Hooks
Author, Feminist, Social Activist
"As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized."
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Sisterhood
104 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"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."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as the white keys."
Stephen King
Author
"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem."
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"The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress."
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"It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride."
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"I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness."
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"I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason."
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"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."
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"The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity."
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"Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite luxury of Socialism--that true Socialism which is based not on equality of income or character, but on the equality of manners. In the democracy of the caffè or the street the great question of our life has been solved, and the brotherhood of man is a reality. But it is accomplished at the expense of the sisterhood of women."
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"For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood."
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"Solidarity is not the same as support. To experience solidarity, we must have a community of interests, shared beliefs and goals around which to unite, to build Sisterhood. Support can be occasional. It can be given and just as easily withdrawn. Solidarity requires sustained, ongoing commitment."
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"Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us."
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"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."
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"To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea."
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"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."
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"I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women."
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"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."
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"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"]"
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"The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs."
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"How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be."
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"The battle for women's rights has been largely won."
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"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."
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