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

E. Lockhart Female Friendship Friendship

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

Sally Rooney Female Friendship Friendship Love

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

Alyssa Cole Consideration Female Friendship Friendship Helpfulness Sisters Doing For Themselves Strong Women Supportiveness Women Women Empowerment

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

Virginia Woolf Female Bonding Female Friendship Feminism Patriarchy Representation Women Women Being Friends

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

~ Tanja Taaljard

Tanja Taaljard Female Empowerment Female Friendship Friendship Love Sisterhood Women Women S Inspirational Women S Strength

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

Tanja Taaljard Female Empowerment Female Friendship Friendship Love Sisterhood Women Women S Inspirational

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

Jamaica Kincaid Female Friendship Friendship Youth