Garry Marshall Quotes

Life changes so quickly. feeling grateful to be around such wonderful people to strengthen and grow with.

I've got fabulous women friends that I kind of didn't have while I was married. I realized the great need for that when the marriage started to disintegrate.

It's important to have girlfriends, because guys tend to come and go.

Women care about their friends.

Female friendships have sustained me from my earliest days as a child.

Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.

[The movie Beaches] was really about how women fight. Women fight, say terrible things to each other and an hour later they make up and go shopping. I think they got the better idea of how it should be done.

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

The relationships I've had with my girl friends are so powerful and meaningful. Without them I truly don't know what I'd do.

The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Some of my best friends here in New York have pasts I have a hard time reconciling with the people I'm close to now. But I wouldn't change them - or their pasts - for anything in the world. Their experiences are what made them the people they are today.

I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That's universal in women's friendships.

I don't think it's more important to preserve female friendship than a marriage. But I think that there's a place for female friendship that's really important in the lives of all the women I know. As I've gotten older, it's become much more important to me.

Just because a romantic relationship ends doesn't mean that the other facets of your relationship have to end... or, indeed, doesn't mean they can't get better.

You want to have a relationship with a man, but, at the end of the day, you have to have some good ole girlfriends. When you are at your lowest, they are going to be there.

We only learn at the speed of pain, and we don't have others in our lives without forgiveness.

Some of the best relationships I had in high school were not romantic - they were with my best girlfriends.

The area where we are the greatest is the area in which we inspire, encourage and connect with another human being.

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.

In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good.

The best accessories a girl can have are her closest friends.

You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

Never underestimate the power of words to heal and reconcile relationships.