Female Friendship Quotes

“You can love more than one person, she said. That's arguable. Why is it any different from having more than one friend? You're friends with me and you also have other friends, does that mean you don't really value me? I don't have other friends, I said.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Meghan pushed her chocolate cheesecake across the table to me. I hadn’t gotten paid yet for November, so I had only ordered coffee. “Here,” she said.

“Don’t you want it?”

“Sure I want it. I ordered it. But I’m giving it to you.”

“Why?”

Meghan stood up and got me a fork. “Remember what Nora said about love? In your movie?”

“Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it,” I said.

“So it’s really amazing cake,” said Meghan. “And I want you to have it.”
― E. Lockhart, Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver

“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, Let Us Dream

“Women instinctually know how to nourish each other, and just being with each other is restorative”
― Tanja Taaljard

“And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. (...) almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men. (...) [women in fiction were] not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of a woman's life is that”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“The women were new friends but I loved them in a massive way. The love was like a large trove of devotion that could only be amassed over time, but it had arrived all at once. The way I loved them felt like it was from long ago.”
― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

“It’s because our friendships – female friendships are just a hop to our sisterhood, and sisterhood can be a very powerful force, to give the world … the things that humans desperately need”
― Tanja Taaljard

“Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed”
― Bell Hooks

“The length of the friendship never brought astonishment. After all, the
majority of Baby Boomers could likely claim a long-standing friendship in their lives. No, it was always the letters: the-pen-on-paper, inside a-stamped-envelope, mailed-in-a-mailbox letter that was awe inspiring.
“You’ve been writing a letter every week for almost thirty years?”
The question always evokes disbelief, particularly since the dawn of the
Internet and email. We quickly correct the misconception.
“Well, at least one letter, but usually more. We write each other three or four letters a week. And we never wait for a return letter before beginning another.”
Conservatively speaking, at just three letters a week since 1987, that
would equal 4,368 letters each, but we’d both agree that estimate is much
too low. We have, on occasion, written each other two letters in a single
day.”
― Mary Potter Kenyon, Mary & Me: A Lasting Link Through Ink

“It's okay if most of your friends are guys, but if you champion this as a commentary on the nature of female friendships, soul search a little.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“I wish we could go back to that moment. The discovering each other phase. The addictive self-revelation through another's eyes phase.”
― Vivek Shraya, The Subtweet

“I have no hesitation in saying that Serena was my life's most present person. Even more so than my own wife, God rest her soul. Ever since I was a little boy in the distant past, she would come up the hill to visit me on weekends.”
― C.J. Thorin, The Wolf and the Shepherd

“Feelings are never silly, dearest.”
― Carol Storm, Burning Innocence

“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, Romance by the Book

“It helps enormously to have had a loving mother. Mothers can give their daughters permission to love their fathers. Mothers can help their daughters feel good about becoming mothers. Mothers can help daughters learn the value of openness and female friendship, especially when times are bad,”
― Victoria Secunda, Women and Their Fathers: The Sexual and Romantic Impact of the First Man in Your Life

“A man will never receive an invitation to participate in the secret relationships the woman in his life has with other females.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Kitty felt that Anna was perfectly unaffected and was not trying to conceal anything, but that she lived in another, higher world full of complex poetic interests beyond Kitty’s reach.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“When I looked at them sitting around me, the church in the distance, beyond that our school, with throngs of girls crossing back and forth in the schoolyard, beyond that the world, how I wished that everything would fall away, so that suddenly we'd be sitting in some different atmosphere, with no future full of ridiculous demands, no need for any sustenance save our love for each other, with no hindrance to any of our desires, which would, of course, be simple desires — nothing, nothing, just sitting on our tombstones forever.”
― Jamaica Kincaid

“Women are more powerful than most of us give ourselves credit for. When we actually decide to stop the jealousy and the finger pointing, and band together to laugh with one another and understand one another, it's like a beautiful firework display on the Fourth of July in Vegas, baby!”
― Helen Edwards, Nothing Sexier Than Freedom

“We was girls together”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

“You're a part of me. You're so deep in my heat that I couldn't get you our if I tried, and I don't want to. I know how lucky I am to have you. To have people who love me enough to hold on even when I'm scared to let them close.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“I have no hesitation in saying that Serena was my life's most pre-sent person. Even more so than my own wife, God rest her soul. Ever since I was a little boy in the distant past, she would come up the hill to visit me on weekends.”
― C.J. Thorin, The Wolf and the Shepherd

“When I'm sad,
one of my favorite things
to do
is reach out to someone
and drop a tiny blessing
in her lap,
as if gently tipping a watering can
over her sprouting seed.
Today
it was a woman who has been growing
her passions into a business
and I just wrote,
Dear Sister,
I love watching
you bloom.”
― Ashley Asti, Your Nature is to Bloom

“So what she's a (this or that)....If you don't plan to help better other women in this world then keep moving, honey!”
― Helen Edwards, Nothing Sexier Than Freedom

“In this world, we return home to find our way separately, each forgiving the other for the things she could not give. In this world, we see each other occasionally; a friend, a touchstone to whom we both return, the heartbreak we both bravely revisit.”
― Kayla Rae Whitaker, The Animators

“I suppose by now the boys are off smoking cigars and looking for balls,” Dorothy said with one corner of her lip turned up.

"They could use some,” Clare lobbed back.”
― pamela hamilton, Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale

“It’s the crazy people who say they’re not crazy!” said Ginnie.”
― Nicole T. Smith, We Have Shadows Too

“Amongst the booming bass and the singing girls and smell of alcohol, my heart felt full, like I’d found my place. The indescribable thrill, not of drinking and singing and dancing, but of being with people who understood you, even if they didn’t know you. The feeling of belonging.”
― Alexandra Larson, Ascend from the Shadows

“For a year or so the group stays intimate and exclusively feminine. But then, after Marie coins the term "contes de fées," or fairy tales, the fame of these "Modern Fairies" begins to spread too fast--- though it is flattering in a manner, of course.”
― Clare Pollard, The Modern Fairies

“Here," Marie tells her, offering Henriette a little almond cake, with a bonnet of rose-petal cream. "You must try these--- our cook's secret recipe. Rumor has it that anyone who tastes one will realize they are loved." And she watches until she is satisfied that Henriette has taken a soft, fragrant bite, and that the magic is beginning to work.”
― Clare Pollard, The Modern Fairies