Famous Quotes & Sayings

Camille Paglia

Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.

William Shakespeare

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

bell hooks

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

Anais Nin

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.

Anais Nin

I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.

Christy Turlington

Participating in a sisterhood with other women is hugely important in my life and a source of joy.

Dalai Lama

For a better, happier, more stable and civilized future, each of us must develop a sincere, warm-hearted feeling of brotherhood and sisterhood.

Dolly Parton

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

Courtney Love

I've been screwed by as many women as I have by men, in terms of lawyers. But lawyers don't count. If you take lawyers out of the equation, you have a more fair playing field. There is a sisterhood.

Albert Schweitzer

The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.

Albert Schweitzer

Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

Mahmoud Abbas

so it will become a model of civilization for the rest of the world.

Karen Hughes

More than 170 flags will fly on the south lawn of the White House today as a way to visually and symbolically explain that the world is coming together to fight this threat to civilization and to freedom.

Theodore Roosevelt

No people is fully civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse

Diane Ravitch

Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this history should be taught accurately and based on the best scholarship, not ideology or politics.

Dennis Prager

America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got in life. As it abandons this value, it will become a mediocre civilization. And eventually it will not be America. It will be a large Sweden, and just as influential as the smaller one.

Denis Hayes

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

Dean Koontz

The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

Arthur Miller

I am a good woman. I know it.

Markus Zusak

An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.

Geoffrey Chaucer

What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.

George Thorogood

I make a rich woman beg, I'll make a good woman steal. I'll make an old woman blush, and make a young woman squeal.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are few good women who do not tire of their role.

Socrates

Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher

Lyndsy Fonseca

It's really hard to meet good women in Hollywood.

Queen Victoria

I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.