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be sisterly
adjective
Pertaining to a sister or sisters.
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I would never argue that a feminist had to be sisterly, any more than sisterliness does anything for feminism.
And you know she'd be sisterly enough to tell you if your bum looked big in gingham hotpants, but that it wouldn't matter because hers would look bigger.
Everything else – the pressure to be sisterly ("When did feminism become confused with Buddhism?"); the idea that we should be held to account, as feminists, for every possible ill that could befall the modern woman ("There's a whole generation of people who've confused 'feminism' with 'anything to do with women'") – all of that is just hassle in disguise.
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We're both only children and have always been sisterly.
Not far short of 100 years later, is sisterly solidarity largely still just that?
She was sisterly and collegiate, but also very focused – all about the gag.
If it's sisterly love you're after, there's Dorothy Maric's "SISTAS: THE MUSICAL" at St . Lukes Theater.
When Princess Beatrice stepped out of an azure ocean in the Caribbean last week displaying a teeny-weeny blue bikini and an hourglass figure straight out of a Gok Wan naked makeover, not everyone was sisterly about the stunning contours on display.
She says to Martha that women at the bar have got to stick together, but then she says: 'Sometimes women at the bar don't like me because I'm sisterly out of court, and vicious in it.'" The first series of Silk ended with Costello (Maxine Peake) taking silk but miscarrying her baby after being assaulted by a former client.
Family love is the heart of the book, whether it's sisterly love, parental love, or marital love.
Even though Joanna couldn't be more sisterly, Marni is certain it is all an act and sets out to rescue Will from the deceitful monster he is about to marry.
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