Elizabeth Blackwell Quotes

I think women are amazing and women's friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film.

I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.

I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have a greater respect for women because of it.

The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.

I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Sisterhood is important because we are all we have to stand on. We have to stand near and by each other, pray for one another, and share the joys and the difficulties that women face in the world today. If we don't talk about it among ourselves, then we are made silent by the patriarchy, and that serves us no purpose.

The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.

I think women supporting women is priceless.

All my friends are female, I've edited for a magazine for young girls for 15 years, I relate to women, and I'm very, very close to my younger sister.

I used to be scared of women. When I was very young they terrified me, but discovering the female universe was incredible and still is to this day, as you never stop learning about them.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

Generally, I liked feeling able to connect with millions of women on a very deep level. It felt special that women especially would cut out my strip and place it on a refrigerator.

We women have to stick together.

When I look around at this world, we women need each other so badly, it breaks my heart. Sisterhood is dissipating, and we aren't doing nearly enough to salvage it. Eliminate the crazies in your life, yes. But also look again at those around you.

Shows like 'Sex and the City' got women involved again in a political way. They were drawn into the personal stories of the four women who together make up one complete cosmopolitan woman. We want to have community, and the show filled that void in our lives: friendship between women.

I grew up in a family of strong women, and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister.

For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the world. I think we're in this together.

I also have this incredible love for women.

I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other.

I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.

It's sad how people want to see us females go against each other. Never been for that. Never will.

I regard other women as my community, not my competition.

When I started on 'Big Bang,' I was the only girl; I felt like I had four brothers. Then Melissa Rauch and Mayim Bialik came on the show, and we got really close. Because of that, I'm not so quick to judge other women, and now I have all these amazing new girlfriends.

The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication because we share those very important things of our families, our mothering, of improving opportunities for the next generation.