Word: sisterhood
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...would really talk about it-because it turned out to be a factor in the election of Audrey Rowe Colom, a black Republican, as the new NWPC Chair. Colom, however, downplayed the tensions that gnawed at the convention. "I think that what you saw here this weekend was sisterhood and that sisterhood transcended racial, ethnic and party lines...
...which was not only a harassing and exhausting one for a woman, but by no means free from grave personal risks." Not to put too fine a point on it, she becomes a detective. As this surprising anthology of 15 mystery tales demonstrates, the lady was hardly alone. The sisterhood began digging up clues a quarter-century before Sherlock Holmes appeared on Baker Street. They have been at it ever since...
...times, the book comes perilously close to taking itself too seriously, but it is this honesty that saves it. The opening letters establish a tone of self-conscious dedication to a revolutionary literary experiment, to the creation of a sisterhood, to the stripping away of all masks and to the exposure of women's true feelings about love and passion. And then, in Letter Three, there is a subtle, slightly self-mocking shift...
...work at Harvard, forsaking our more equally distributed, humiliatingly less lauded sisters in the badlands remote from magical Cantabrigia. We get smarter and more self assured and "Cliffie" or every year, so that by the time we are ready to graduate, words like oppression and sexism, feminism and sisterhood sound a little overstated, or a little irrelevant, or just downright ridiculous...
...cheerful determination to find "something sensible to do." She has learned, during the course of her dream, that responsibility and not freedom is the key to "real life," and, having shaken off the shackles of Victorian femininity, she sets off in equal partnership with her mother to found a "sisterhood...