I wasn't sure whether or not "sistren" worked or had been used by anyone, so I googled it, and it totally is a word! ❋ Willowfagan (2008)
While I'm not typically one of those people who second-guess my own or other people's strategic decisions when things aren't going well, I have a duty to my community, my gay brethren (and "sistren"?), and myself to point to what I believe are our obvious missteps in the effort to advance our cause. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Among my brethren and sistren in incubation I count the folks working at places like idealab, betaworks, alleycorp, as well as certain current and former university venture lab specialists I hold in high esteem. ❋ Dave Lerner (2011)
I see many of the brethren and the sistren are in the same place I was the other night, when Tatyana commented on my gloom. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Lo, Pythonic brethren and sistren sic, our sacred fools are back, bearing sumptuous gifts for the discerning comedic and musical connoisseur. ❋ Gregory Weinkauf (2010)
Lo, Pythonic brethren and sistren (sic), our sacred fools are back, bearing sumptuous gifts for the discerning comedic and musical connoisseur. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And you're right about our double-X-chromosome sistren, too. ❋ Unknown (2008)
So, I was writing, and the word "brethren" seemed to fit the flow of the character's speech, but I thought, "Well, the people she's talking about aren't all men," so I wrote "brethren and sistren". ❋ Willowfagan (2008)
One of the reasons I was slower than my 'spheric brethren and sistren to jump on the anti-MoDo bandwagon was that, for all her flaws, she is inside the head of two politicians: Bubba and Dumbya. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I see you've taken the time off from your five-day-per-week relentless canvassing to tell us all, once again, the obvious - that you, and the likely statistically insignificant minority of those who claim to be Democrats yet won't vote for a certain Democratic nominee with a 90% liberal voting record in the Senate that was democratically chosen by your former Democratic brethren and sistren. ❋ Unknown (2009)
A toast (see photo) to all my Obama brethren ans sistren!!!!!!!!! ❋ Unknown (2009)
His writing now most hopelessly dated, his most significant political "accomplishment" was helping to get Richard Nixon elected president by making snot-wired connections that triggered the apathy of his drug-addled brethren and sistren of the day - fueling a sad, uncritically sad attitude that persists to this day as a major problem that true lifelong progressives face (d) when dealing with the cynical know-it-all progressiver-than-thou wing of the Democratic Party (see Gore 2000). ❋ Unknown (2009)
Nothing against my larger-chested sistren, but clothing sits better on smaller breastesses. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Which is why, my brethren and sistren, the notion of romantic oppression — the phantom wedgie we've felt twixt our glutes since middle school — is something we can no longer afford. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Her Christian brethren and sistren made it clear they were more than willing to ignore the hypocrisy between her words and life. ❋ Unknown (2008)
No, Palin's problem has already been underlined by some of the more thoughtful of her GOP brethren and sistren like George Will, David Brooks, and Kathleen Parker. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Another - probably nearer the mark - is that not only is New York a blue city it's Yankee blue and the vile neo-Confederate oligarchy that's been dragging the nation through a swamp of dishonor and corruption for the past six years, hates New York with that bestial unreasoning hatred only our southern brethren and sistren are capable of - at least if they're 'Christians'. ❋ Unknown (2008)
They just might be heading down the same path as their union brethren and sistren in the US auto industry. ❋ Unknown (2006)