Friendship Quotes by Anna Quindlen

I sort of feel like it comes around again. That when you get to a certain age, when you've lived enough and…

— Anna Quindlen

“The women I know who are happiest today are the ones who have close female friends. Maybe that’s true of men, too,…

— Anna Quindlen

Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be…

— Anna Quindlen

The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over…

— Anna Quindlen

Now the baby boomers, i.e., us, are getting older, and were suddenly discovering that there are great things about getting older. You…

— Anna Quindlen

“There is so much obligatory generosity to being a good mother, a good wife, a good friend. Solitude is an acceptable form…

— Anna Quindlen

I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show…

— Anna Quindlen

I only really understand myself, what I'm really thinking and feelings, when I've talked it over with my circle of female friends.…

— Anna Quindlen

A friend and I flew south with our children. During the week we spent together I took off my shoes, let down…

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What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is…

— Anna Quindlen

You realize that these accidental decisions you make about changing jobs, about moving into an apartment where you make new friends and…

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“How many times had she heard women in New York - maybe women everywhere, for all she knew - speak lyrically of…

— Anna Quindlen

“The thing about old friends is not that they love you, but that they know you. They remember that disastrous New Year's…

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“One of the most important parts of tending our friendships is working our way, over time, into the kind of friendships that…

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“My friendships have a certain symmetry at the moment: Alice is always asking me what she should do, and Nancy is always…

— Anna Quindlen

I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there…

— Anna Quindlen

“Perhaps only when we've made our peace with our own selves can we really be the kind of friends who listen, advise,…

— Anna Quindlen