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14 Women In Literature On How They Define Friendship

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. 
Kirsten Corley
August 26, 2016
“Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Tagged: Friendship, Friends
“Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.”
— Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
Tagged: Home, Love, Family, Friends, Relationships, Quality Time
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Tagged: Best Friends, Friends, Friendship
“True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.”
— Edna Buchanan, Book Of Quotations By Women
Tagged: Friendship Quotes, Friend Quotes, BFF Quotes
“I find it shelter to speak to you.”
— Emily Dickinson, Book Of Quotations
Tagged: Friendship Quotes, Friends, BFF Quotes
“I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. ”
— Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance
Tagged: BFF Quotes, Friend Quotes
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Tagged: Friendship Quotes, BFF, Friend Quotes
“It's the one you can call up at 4:00am that matter.”
— Marlene Dietrich, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
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“Friends are the family we choose ourselves.”
— Edna Buchman, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Tagged: Friendship Quotes, BFF, Best Friends
“There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.”
— Anne Stevenson, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Tagged: Friendship, BFF, Friend Quotes
“A friend can tell you things you don't want tot tell yourself.”
— Frances Ward, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
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“What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Tagged: Friendship Quotes, Friends, BFF
“Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with the natural gift for it.”
— Kathleen Norris., The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Tagged: Friendship, Friend Quotes
“Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.  ”
— Louise Bernikow, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Tagged: Friends, BFF Quotes, Friend Quotes