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“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.”

Book:Let Us Dream

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“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 Feminism Representation Patriarchy Female Friendship Female Bonding Women Being Friends

Book:A Room of One’s Own

Source: A Room of One’s Own

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

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

Author:Tanja Taaljard

“I consider telling my brother, asking him for help. But tell him what exactly? I have no black eyes, no bloody noses to report: Cordelia does nothing physical. If it was boys, chasing or teasing, he would know what to do, but I don’t suffer from boys in this way. Against girls and their indirectness, their whisperings, he would be helpless.”

Friendships Female Friendship

Book:Cat’s Eye

Source: Cat’s Eye

“We checked ourselves in the mirror before we left. We were flushed and a little rumpled, but in a good way. We looked vibrant, wild, happy. The hair and the clothes and the makeup made me feel like someone new, but the happy is what made me unrecognizable.”

Female Friendship

Book:Why Can't I Be You

Source: Why Can't I Be You

“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”

Love Women Friendship Female Empowerment Sisterhood Women S Inspirational Female Friendship

Author:Tanja Taaljard

“Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.”

Children Faith Family Parenting

Author:Lisa Wingate

“Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed”

Intimacy Patriarchy Female Friendship

Author:Bell Hooks

“I will employ the gentle, vague expression “I’m not crazy about that on you,” which should mean to you, “Holy shit, take that off, that looks terrible!” I owe it to you to give feedback like a cattle prod: painful but quick.”

Friendship Female Friendship

Book:Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“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.”

Romance Concern Alex Lesbian Lgbtqia Female Friendship Cam Heart Failure Good Samaritan

Book:Romance by the Book

Source: Romance by the Book

“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.”

Admiration Older Women Female Friendship Married Women

Book:ANNA KARENINA

Source: ANNA KARENINA

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