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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

"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

"When things have gone quite difficult for us I was here the next day and every day after it - solidarity in sisterhood."

From BBC May 14, 2026

It was an embracing of an image of sisterhood, of women choosing to collaborate and affirm their connection with each other.

From Los Angeles Times May 5, 2026

White women on campus proclaimed their sisterhood with working-class women.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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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