Quotes About Female Friendships

#1. A lot of ink is given over to mythologizing female friendships as curious, fragile relationships that are always intensely fraught. Stop reading writing that encourages this mythology.

Roxane Gay

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

Henry Fielding

#3. Abandon the cultural myth that all female friendships must be bitchy, toxic, or competitive. This myth is like heels and purses--pretty but designed to SLOW women down.

Roxane Gay

#4. I'm interested in female friendships and family relationships. So I don't write the traditional romance, where you just have the hero and the heroine's love story. I like intertwining relationships.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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

Jessie Elliot

#6. What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It's all pretty funny, and worth making fun of.

Elizabeth Meriwether

#7. Female friendships are of rapid growth.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Louise Bernikow

#9. In college, it's very easy to maintain your female friendships because you're in such close proximity all the time.

Greta Gerwig

#10. Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men ... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.

Samantha Harvey

#11. I'm really excited that 'The Other Woman' did so well at the box office, and I hope that will keep encouraging people to make movies about women, starring women, about female friendships. More. Please.

Gillian Jacobs

#12. I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

Lena Dunham

#13. I'm more scared of parking by a parking meter than vampires because one of them is real and adversely affects my life and results in a $35 fine, and one is nonsense.

Ike Barinholtz

#14. The dinosaurs died so that chat rooms may flourish

Tom Robbins

#15. When i get into the best college in America, he is cutting radishes for dinner. I have just found out ten minutes ago. I am elated. He puts down the knife to shake my hand and then goes back to cutting radishes.

Weike Wang

#16. I'm not one of those people who are, like, always joking in person.

Dave Franco

#17. People talk of life's storms as if they are universal experiences. But they're not. Some people hear thunder while others touch lightning.

Richard Paul Evans

#18. Many of us are more capable than some of us ... but none of us is as capable as all of us!

Tom Wilson

#19. I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendships, relationships.

Kathryn Lasky

#20. Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens who can engage in debate, dialogue and bear witness to a different and critical sense of remembering, agency, ethics and collective resistance.

Henry Giroux

#21. To become a courageous leader, you must realize that accepting responsibility is not optional - it's mandatory.

David Cottrell

#22. She pronounced the word married as if her voice caressed it. It seemed a rustling covert leading to enchanted glades.

Edith Wharton

#23. Not all battles can be fought in the light.

Jessica Khoury

#24. It may be something to do with my having been to a girls' school, but I'm far more comfortable making male friendships than female ones. My friends tend to be men and their significant others.

Joanne Harris