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sisterhood

noun as in association or alliance

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I like how Alice Walker created with this book — and it continues in the musical version — a beautiful story of sisterhood and the power women have to change their lives and world around them when they come together in support and love.

A lighter approach to the mixed messages women receive about rivalry and sisterhood can make for wickedly effective comedy.

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This is really a novel of sisterhood, of women finding clever routes to claiming their power, given all the roadblocks men have historically thrown up before them.

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The friendship between Janis and Ana is at times frayed but ultimately forges itself into something stronger than sisterhood, and Smit and Cruz carry us deftly through its evolution.

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While they wait for justice, the support of the sisterhood has fortified some of the first accusers.

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They are now in essence a sisterhood joined together by a vile incident.

And the negative reaction to it was surprising because it really seemed to prove your point about the lack of “sisterhood.”

The Deadly Sisterhood By Leonie Frieda A historical examination of the unique power held by eight women of 15th-century Italy.

Is there some secret sisterhood of Royal dress sharing we mere mortals are kept in the dark about?

Over dinner in Beverly Hills recently, the sisterhood was palpable.

Frulein Timm belongs to the single sisterhood, but is one of the fresh and placid kind, and as neat as wax.

A spirit of sisterhood among women would have sadly upset the social scheme, as it has been hitherto conceived.

I look with veneration upon those of our sisterhood who have grown old in the classroom.

Savannah suffered least of the fair Atlantic sisterhood, from the blockade.

The sisterhood, the maidens, flocking round the young waterman, and urging him along the stream of duty and of temperance.

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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sisterhood, such as: alliance, community, feminism, fellowship, sodality, and solidarity.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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