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sisterhood

[sis-ter-hood] / ˈsɪs tərˌhʊd /


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Ultimately, what sisterhood there is between “Five-Star Weekend” and “Ride or Die” can be seen in the way they consider the resources a woman has as she enters middle age.

From Salon Jul. 26, 2026

Has our unity fallen into misdirected victimhood disguised as sisterhood?

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 21, 2026

"We have built our sisterhood through creating this podcast."

From BBC Jun. 18, 2026

"That feels valid, but it starts small, and it starts by daily actions, and this idea of sisterhood felt like a really strong theme in this film."

From Barron's May 20, 2026

“It’s the sisterhood Mom’s always talking about. Five women who are reincarnations of legendary queens from the ancient stories. These days their job is to raise and protect us.”

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

In Los Angeles, Molina became a bridge between the separated sisterhoods of the Westside, South L.A. and the Eastside.

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 2023

One of the oldest Black sisterhoods, the Sisters of the Holy Family, formed in New Orleans in 1842 because white sisterhoods in Louisiana, including the slave-holding Ursuline order, refused to accept African Americans.

From Washington Times Apr. 30, 2022

It’s also a defining factor in the crime stories “The Kitchen” and “Hustlers,” where women form uneasy, contingent sisterhoods as a bulwark against male power and as a way to provide for their families.

From New York Times Dec. 19, 2019

Until I took my nosebleed seat in the theater, and ended up thinking about power, and femininity, and ya-ya sisterhoods up the wazoo, and feeling oddly moved.

From Washington Post Oct. 30, 2018

Those who swelled their little unarmed strength into the reckoning one of leagues, clubs, societies, sisterhoods designed to hold or withhold, move or stay put, make a way, solicit, comfort and ease.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison




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