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.

bell hooks

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

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.

Nancy Astor

The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about 'shrieking sisterhoods' and 'disappointed spinsters' and rubbish of that sort.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

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?

Carolyn Heilbrun

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

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.

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.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Don Rickles

I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage.

Edie Falco

When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

Alan Cohen

The best way to get what you want is to realize you already have it.

Alan Cohen

If you want peace, look for it where it is, not in conflict.

Dick Cheney

You cannot be driven by the polls. The polls change all the time; they're easily manipulated by whoever wants to ask those poll questions; they go up; they go down.

John Nersesian

If I want to build wealth to transfer to the next generation, I can let it grow on a tax-free basis.

Claire Danes

Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

Banksy

Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it's probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.