female-friendship

Women instinctually know how to nourish each other, and just being with each other is restorative

It__ 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

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

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.

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.

Meghan pushed her chocolate cheesecake across the table to me. I hadn__ gotten paid yet for November, so I had only ordered coffee. __ere,_ she said.__on__ you want it?___ure I want it. I ordered it. But I__ giving it to you.___hy?__eghan stood up and got me a fork. __emember what Nora said about love? In your movie?___ove is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it__ the very last piece, but you let him have it,_ I said.__o it__ really amazing cake,_ said Meghan. __nd I want you to have it.

Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed

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.