sisterhood
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“Practical Magic” is a story of family and sisterhood, of the bonds that we make and the ones that we break.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
“Her memory will forever remain a part of our sisterhood, and her impact will continue to live on through the lives she touched.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Has our unity fallen into misdirected victimhood disguised as sisterhood?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
"We wanted to talk about how this sisterhood helped us become resilient, so that we're able to dream and to run again."
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Brotherhood and sisterhood in wartime was necessary and acceptable—for the Motherland.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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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