"Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things."
— Ann Brashares (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants)

"There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."
— Madeleine Albright

""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 . . . She will need her sisterhood.""
— Gloria Steinem

"I love you, I'll never stop."
— Ann Brashares (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants)

"Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known."
— Nellie McClung

"Riley was quiet for a minute. She gathered her blanket all around her. "Paul always loved you, Alice. He knows I know that. I know he loves me, too. But it's different."

Alice opened her mouth, but nothing came out at first. "He loved me once. But I think that part is over," she said slowly.

"No, it's not. It hasn't even begun." Riley took Alice's bare foot in her hand and squeezed it. "I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first."
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— Ann Brashares (The Last Summer)

"There are two kinds of people in the world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and the kind who don't."
— Ann Brashares (The Second Summer of the Sisterhood)