Friendship Quotes by Toni Morrison

The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend.

— Toni Morrison

Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.

— Toni Morrison

Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself

— Toni Morrison

A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.

— Toni Morrison

I don't think I knew any of my father's friends - male friends - by their real names. I remember them only…

— Toni Morrison

The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.

— Toni Morrison

“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back…

— Toni Morrison

“It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.”

— Toni Morrison

“And if you have the emotional strength and/or support from family and friends, the damage is reduced or erased. We think of…

— Toni Morrison

I began to realize that this idea of the lighter the better and the darker the worse was really - had an…

— Toni Morrison

“Like many of us left here I thought I knew you. Now I discover that in your company it is myself I…

— Toni Morrison

“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back…

— Toni Morrison

She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not…

— Toni Morrison

“Pauline, what would you do if your own brother had a party and didn’t invite you?’ I said ifn I really wanted…

— Toni Morrison

...fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was…

— Toni Morrison

“It may even be that some of us know what it is like to be actually hated—hated for things we have no…

— Toni Morrison

“Apparently he thought he deserved only to be loved--from a distance, though--and given what he wanted. And in return he would be…

— Toni Morrison

We read about how Ajax and Achilles will die for each other, but very little about the friendship of women.

— Toni Morrison