Female Friendship Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  People, Office, Female

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• He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Enemy

  "The Conduct of Life". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Considerations By the Way", 1860.

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

  Greta Gerwig

  College, Female, Easy

  Source: collider.com

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• Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Love, Friendship, Heartbreak

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.351

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• Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Author's complete ed”, p.638

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• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Best Friend, Friendship, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.195, Harvard University Press

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• The love story between the hero and the heroine has to be at the center of the book. I think that's pretty true in my books. I usually write a secondary love story, with maybe nontraditional characters. Sometimes I write older characters. 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

  Book, Hero, Writing

  Source: content.time.com

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• It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

  Epicurus

  Friendship, Relationship, Leadership

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• When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

  E. W. Howe

  Friendship, Relationship, Patience

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• I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Able, Comfort, Female

  Samuel Johnson (1850). “The history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia, a tale”, p.33

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• Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

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• Something snapped inside her. “Of course I’m afraid! Relationships do bad things to me.” He started to respond, but the pain had gone on long enough, and she didn’t want to hear it. “You know what I want? I want peace. I want a good job and a decent place to live. I want to read books and listen to music and have time to make some female friendships that are going to last. When I wake up in the morning, I want to know that I have a decent shot at being happy. And here’s what’s really sad. Until I met you, I was almost there.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Morning, Jobs, Pain

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• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

  'Essays' (1841) 'Friendship'

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• 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

  Fun, Mean, Today

  "Comedy Showrunners Week: New Girl creator Elizabeth Meriwether laughs at her characters' pain". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. September 25, 2012.

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