Quotes About Female Friendship

#1. It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.

Samantha Harvey

#2. No matter what the genre, I want to see me and my friends. I want to see reality. I want to see what we're really like. I loved Bridesmaids. I thought it was the most honest portrayal of female friendship in such a long time.

Drew Barrymore

#3. I think the issue of female friendship really resonates well with women, ... So many women have a friend like Darcy or can relate to the feeling of being second-fiddle to a friend.

Emily Giffin

#4. I thought we had reached an understanding, the institution of marriage and I. Weddings are like the triathalon of female friendship: the Shower, the Bachelorette Party, and the Main Event. It's the Iron Woman and most people never make it through. They fall of their bikes and choke on ocean water.

Sloane Crosley

#5. Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup.

Maggie Shipstead

#6. He endearing elegance of female friendship.

Samuel Johnson

#7. We have no good blueprint for how to integrate the contemporary intimacies of female friendship and of marriage into one life.

Rebecca Traister

#8. From the Twitter responses we got with 'Best Friends Forever' and the small feedback we are getting as the show is meted out, I think people are seeing themselves in the show and enjoying seeing female friendship portrayed in the way it really is.

Lennon Parham

#9. I like so many different kinds of chick flicks. I like rom-coms, I like female friendship movies.

Drew Barrymore

#10. she didn't get the subtle nuances of female friendship that other women seemed to have been born knowing. She

Michelle Major

#11. What power has law where only money rules.

Petronius

#12. Women helped each other in ways small and large every day, without thinking, and that was what kept them going even when the world came up with new and exciting ways to crush them.

Alyssa Cole

#13. Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.

Louise Bernikow

#14. Female friendships are of rapid growth.

Benjamin Disraeli

#15. Just as I'd seemed to be doing okay after my mom died. Grief doesn't have a face.

Cheryl Strayed

#16. If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick.

A. J. Langer

#17. Perhaps one of these days she'd surprise herself and not actually do the thing that was right and proper and best for all concerned. And probably give herself heart failure from the shock.

Jo Victor

#18. A male-female close-friendship hardly differs from a relationship; it takes "relating" to be friends. But sadly, not every relationship has friendship in it. It's just ironical that two people who are not good enough to be best friends are in love and want to spend the rest of their lives together.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#19. I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Edward Gibbon

#20. Good female friendships are the strongest relationships in the world.

Jessie Elliot

#21. Not many people carry out thoughts they know going into it are stupid ... morons not included. (Apollymi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#22. It's often said that "the Irish built America. The truth is, not only did they build it, they also manufactured, repaired, and cleaned it, especially in the decades before and after the potato famine.

Rashers Tierney

#23. You're like great Shakespearean tragedy.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#24. Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed

Bell Hooks

#25. I will employ the gentle, vague expression "I'm not crazy about that on you," which should mean to you, "Holy shit, take that off, that looks terrible!" I owe it to you to give feedback like a cattle prod: painful but quick.

Mindy Kaling

#26. Feelings are never silly, dearest.

Carol Storm

#27. We dropped our hands, both embarrassed by the sincerity of the moment. But I was learning, Sometimes you had to put it all out there, no matter how hard it felt to do so. When the people in your life were worth it, so was the risk.

Gwenda Bond

#28. The sin we commit against each other as women is lack of support. We hurt. We hurt each other. We hide. We project. We become mute or duplicitous, and we fester like boiling water until one day we erupt like a geyser. Do we forget we unravel in grief?

Terry Tempest Williams

#29. No matter how old a person gets, he's never old in spring!

Elizabeth Enright

#30. Sometimes, with luck, we find the kind of true friend, male or female, that appears only two or three times in a lucky lifetime, one that will winter us and summer us, grieve, rejoice, and travel with us.

Barbara Holland

#31. Don't forget your ruler on your first day of cult!

Robin Sloan

#32. We checked ourselves in the mirror before we left. We were flushed and a little rumpled, but in a good way. We looked vibrant, wild, happy. The hair and the clothes and the makeup made me feel like someone new, but the happy is what made me unrecognizable.

Allie Larkin

#33. In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.

Henry Fielding

#34. Hasten Little Maiden
...
stop and listen
for pearls of wisdom
stop and listen
as the river glistens ...

Muse