Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurie Colwin

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

Laurie Holden

I think women are amazing and womens friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film.

Sela Ward

I haven't heard anything about a reunion show for Sisters. But if the script was good I would do it.

Leymah Gbowee

We must continue to unite in sisterhood to turn our tears into triumph. There is no time to rest until our world achieves wholeness and balance, where all men and women are considered equal and free.

Pearl Cleage

Sisterhood is a funny thing. It's easy to recognize, but hard to define.

Phyllis Diller

My sister-in-law is so skinny that she has a striped dress with only one stripe.

Hector Elizondo

Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister.

Lisa Snowdon

I'm the oldest and I've got two sisters.

Lisa See

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.

Lisa See

May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other's frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we've had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.

Lisa See

We hug, but there are no tears. For every awful thing that's been said and done, she is my sister. Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life. She is the only person left in the world who shares my memories of our childhood, our parents, our Shanghai, our struggles, our sorrows, and, yes, even our moments of happiness and triumph. My sister is the one person who truly knows me, as I know her. The last thing May says to me is 'When our hair is white, we'll still have our sister love.

John Taylor

It is true, we do not like to lose a good, kind companion, a wife, a husband, a child, a brother, a sister, or any of our near and dear friends or relatives; but we have to do it, and it is right and proper that we should. They go a little before us; when we get there they will receive and welcome us and say, "God bless you, you have come at last." That is the way I look at it. I ex pect to strike hands and embrace my friends who have gone before.

Marc Brown

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Natalie Imbruglia

Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

Louisa May Alcott

…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.

Louisa May Alcott

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

John F. Kennedy

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.

Kate Winslet

I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.

Phoebe Cary

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.

Paul Lynde

My sisters said, Why do you make those faces? You make yourself so ugly.

Pope Benedict XVI

Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.

John Dos Passos

The chilly December day! two shivering bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio first felt their homemade contraption whittled out of hickory sticks, gummed together with Arnstein's bicycle cement, stretched with muslin they'd sewn on their sister's sewing machine in their own backyard on Hawthorn Street in Dayton, Ohio, soar into the air above the dunes and the wide beach at Kitty Hawk.

John Millington Synge

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

Karen Russell

"I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies-a cypress age, a Sawtooth age-I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love.

Judy Chicago

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

Lawrence Welk

The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.

Louise Mensch

Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.

John Mahoney

It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of my senses.

Elizabeth Fishel

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.

Elizabeth Fishel

From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.

Elizabeth Fishel

We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.