Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes

It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.

Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall.

It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.

I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.

So many of my favorite stories, in any medium, are about friendship. Those relationships are so often just as emotional and complex as any romantic or family dynamics, and yet there's a dearth of resonant, grounded films about platonic bonds in American films.

Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.

Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think is wonderful. It's your deepest appreciation of the value of that individual, and that individual is a reflection of what you value most in life. Love, for sound reasons, can be one of life's greatest rewards.

Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.

Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.

Love is friendship that has caught fire . . .

I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.

The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on the whole, educated people have more ways to make friends... . In England, for instance, you find everyone in your class has read the same books. Here, people grope for something in common-like a newly engaged girl who came to me and said, "It's absolutely wonderful! His uncle and my cousin were on the same football team.

We don't really make friends, they make us.

Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

Boys and girls can be friends. It's not weird. They're a person and they can be your best friend in the whole world.

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.

Miss Edmunds was one of his secrets. He was in love with her. Not the kind of silly stuff Ellie and Brenda giggled about on the telephone. This was too real and too deep to talk about, even to think about very much.

I remain good friends with most of the major relationships in my life.

People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common.

For all of us, whether we walk old paths or blaze new trails, friends remain important.