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6 of the Best Friendship Quotes from Funny Women
You probably have at least one friend that you tell everyone about. You wear her sweater and feel more whole, you talk about how awesome she is at yoga and making nachos, and soon you're gushing to strangers about that time you ate pizza together in a public bathroom in a foreign city at 1 a.m. She has your mom's cell phone number and they casually text.
For many of us, these friendships aren't optional — they're essential for survival. They may be more intimate and valuable than our romantic relationships. The recently released Book of Jezebel proclaimed, "...it's friendship — particularly friendship between women — that's the lasting, reliable, lifelong relationship we should all be investing in." At the Cut, Ann Friedman also recently acknowledged the importance of female friendships, advising readers to woo friends as intently as we do dates. "Because just like romantic relationships, so many friendships begin with one person pursuing the other. And I’m here to tell you it’s not desperate or weird. It’s smart."
In celebration of female friendship, here are quotes on female friendship from some of funny women we wish were our friends.
Amy Poehler
"Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn’t make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it."
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Lena Dunham
"I think about my best friendship — which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on — as like a great romance of my young life."
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Mindy Kaling
"One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about."
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Nora Ephron
"My friend Judy ... was the person I told everything to. She was my best friend, my extra sister, my true mother, sometimes even my daughter, she was all these things...I have her white cashmere shawl. I wore it for days after her death; I wrapped myself up in it; I even slept in it. But now I can't bear to wear it because it feels as if that's all there is left of my Judy. I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I can't believe I'm here without her."
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Tina Fey
"Amy made it clear that she wasn't there to be cute. She wasn't there to play wives and girlfriends in the boys' scenes ... I was so happy. Weirdly, I remember thinking, 'My friend is here! My friend is here!' Even though things had been going great for me at the show, with Amy there, I felt less alone."
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Kristen Wiig
"...I feel there’s so much pressure, especially for women, to declare what their life’s going to be and what their career is, and are you married yet? Are you single? But you’re 30. And girlfriends are so important. You can have a boyfriend or husband when you’re 30, but you still need your girlfriends."
