American history Quote by Amy Hill Hearth

“We were the brothers 'holding it down' on the business side of the magazine, but it would have to be the 'sisters,' black women,…

— Edward Lewis

All women are sisters.

— Juliet Aubrey

Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis

— Chandra Talpade Mohanty

We need to encourage black women to know that they are authors of their own destiny, that they have important stories to tell, and…

— Michaela Coel

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

— Buchi Emecheta

“our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry - women of color”

— Rupi Kaur

I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of…

— Lynn Nottage

The Weird Sisters is a chronicle of real women, because it tells the truths of sisters. Eleanor Brown has written a compelling novel about…

— Min Jin Lee

We must begin to tell black women's stories because, without them, we cannot tell the story of black men, white men, white women, or…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

“We can say the brotherhood of man, and pretend that we include the sisterhood of women, but we know that we don't. Folklore has…

— Germaine Greer

We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the…

— Nikki Giovanni

They called each other family and that’s what they were—sisters. Many people in the world had family of the heart, kin by choice rather…

— Christine Feehan