A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions Quotes

“It’s just money. It’s just stuff. And you know it ain’t ethical for people to be that rich, not when people are going hungry. Now there’s nothing he’s got that I don’t.”
― Sheena Boekweg, A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions

“felt like a wicked stepsister who had stepped into Cinderella’s story.”
― Sheena Boekweg, A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions

“It makes me wonder, really, how much of women’s influence has been ignored by history. I believe we need to celebrate women, in all the different ways they’re made.”
― Sheena Boekweg, A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions

“We should skip the one-hundred-dollar plate of steak and potatoes and go steal a dinner made entirely of desserts.” “That sounds positively rebellious.”
― Sheena Boekweg, A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions

“No, it’s not jealousy. There is a status quo, Elsie. The men rule their businesses, and the women rule their houses. And as the future wives of powerful men we need to reflect that.”
― Sheena Boekweg, A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions

“After Penelope Barker’s tea party, Abigail and her sisterhood knew that this society would need to be secret. Because as soon as you stand up, they knocked you back into your place. So we used our beauty as a shield and a cover. We hid behind the femininity and gentleness Abigail preached to others,”
― Sheena Boekweg, A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions

“dropped his secret ambitions like a lure. He inhaled quickly, staring at me like he was memorizing my face and this moment. Like I’d mentioned his most secret of dreams, the goals too big to even believe possible, and I believed in them.”
― Sheena Boekweg, A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions

“It’s making criminals richer, and the wealthy still keep getting drunk anyhow. It’s not a law if it’s only illegal for the poor. It’s a wealth tax. And why shouldn’t the poor have something to dim the pain of being poor?” I couldn’t”
― Sheena Boekweg, A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions

“You have to take responsibility for your actions. At some point, not today, mind you, but soon we’re going to be grown-ups, and if you’re the one who wins this priority, then you need to stay stalwart and true to our oaths and to the people we’ll serve. I need you to not turn selfish.”
― Sheena Boekweg, A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions

“believe in a free market. Too much regulation can hurt business growth and—” “—On the backs of its workers,” I interrupted. “Regulations are necessary in order to protect worker rights.”
― Sheena Boekweg, A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions

“Love was romantic and magical, like a fairy tale. But what we did was plotted. It was like a recipe really, and if you combined the right steps, baked at the right temperature, and included the same ingredients, then the cake came out the same every time.”
― Sheena Boekweg, A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions

“didn’t need a safety net, like a trapeze artist in the circus. I was going to win this. I knew it. I kept my face still. “I’ll write.”
― Sheena Boekweg, A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions

“Was it ungrateful to want more when your stomach was always full?”
― Sheena Boekweg, A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions

“I was twelve when they decided that one day I would marry a powerful man of their choosing. And then after we married, I’d become the influence that would change his decisions and history itself.”
― Sheena Boekweg, A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions

“It’s not that I wasn’t proud of my brother, or the work he was doing as a lawyer fighting for poor folks who were swindled into making bad mortgages. I was so proud of that. And of him.”
― Sheena Boekweg, A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions

“Kindness would have taught those children that how their father acted was permissible. My words were not kind, but they were right.”
― Sheena Boekweg, A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions