Female Friendship Quotes - Page 2

• But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Friendship, Happiness

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.423

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• You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Friendship, Real, Scandal

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Friendship, Family, Sibling

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• I don't know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn't had my girlfriends.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Friendship, Girlfriend, Done

  "Reese Witherspoon Opens Up About Her Friendship with A-Listers Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore". www.intouchweekly.com. February 5, 2014.

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• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

  Marcel Proust

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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  The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Friendship, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• I love my husband, but it is nothing like a conversation with a woman that understands you. I grow so much from those conversations.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Husband, Female, Conversation

  "Beyonce Documentary Quotes: Lessons We Learned From ‘Life Is But A Dream’", www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2013.

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• I think about my best friendship - which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on - as like a great romance of my young life.

  Lena Dunham

  Friendship, Girl, Thinking

  Interview with Claire Danes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 1, 2012.

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• The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Friendship, Relationship

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.253, Harvard University Press

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• Female friendships are of rapid growth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Friendship, Growth, Female

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5010, Delphi Classics

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• He endearing elegance of female friendship.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Female, Elegance

  Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works”, p.50

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

  Maggie Shipstead

  Female, Prevention, Nine

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• I was really scared that other girls hated me, that I wasn't pretty enough or cool enough or I didn't have enough Instagram followers or whatever. Finding female friendship was such a monumental point in my life. And I never want somebody to feel like they have to re-evaluate themselves to join my friends or to join any friend-group.

  Rowan Blanchard

  Girl, Instagram, Groups

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Some of my very closest friends are my guy friends, going back to the third grade, so I believe in the integrity of the male-female friendship.

  Emily Giffin

  Integrity, Believe, Guy

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

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• "Summer Sisters" was actually was a huge influence on "Girls" because it was the first thing I ever consumed that sort of looked at the way that female friendship can be glorious and can be complicated and can be so like a worse betrayal than something romantic and it just showed these archetypes of femininity than totally sort of individuated them and exploded them.

  Judy Blume

  Girl, Summer, Betrayal

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Real Friends, Civil War

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.361, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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

  Thinking, Issues, Feelings

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• 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

  Birthday, Jealousy, Anxiety

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• 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

  Fall, Party, Ocean

  FaceBook post by Sloane Crosley from Jun 28, 2010

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• It's been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be. If someone is truly a loyal friend, then they wouldn't need to broadcast it; eventually, people will figure it out. I have a lot of good friends and not one of them has ever introduced themselves by saying, 'I'm a very good friend.'

  Chelsea Handler

  Good Friend, Opposites, People

  Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel there's so much pressure, especially for women, to declare what their life's going to be and what their career is, and are you married yet? Are you single? But you're 30. And girlfriends are so important. You can have a boyfriend or husband when you're 30, but you still need your girlfriends.

  Kristen Wiig

  Girlfriend, Husband, Careers

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

  Drew Barrymore

  Female, Different, Kind

  Interview with Becky Kirsch, www.popsugar.com. November 6, 2015.

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

  Henry Fielding

  Beauty, Female, One Woman

  Henry Fielding (1783). “The Beauties of Fielding. Carefully Selected ... To which is Added Some Account of His Life”, p.21

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• Girls get competitive, as though there's only one spot in the world for everything _ but that's not true. We need to stick together and see there's more to life than pleasing men. It's important not to cut yourself off from female friendships. I think sometimes girls get scared of other girls, but you need each other.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Girl, Cutting, Men

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• He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

  Omar Khayyam

  Friendship, Enemy, Few Friends

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (1912). “Rubáiyát: English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald's version, with further selections, notes, biographies, bibliographies, and other material”

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