sisterhood
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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
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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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