Diane English Quotes

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

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish.

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.

I think most people would struggle to define their whole relationship with just one label - like: my girlfriend, boyfriend, brother, sister, confidantes, whatever - but in those moments, there's true joy in each other.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

I don't have a bunch of mates. I don't have a man cave. My wife and I, we are each other's best friend.

I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'

I'm constantly astounded by how amazing women are. And as we go through all these different stages of life as long as you share them with others and say, 'Well, this is bloody weird', you can get through everything.

I love it when women are like, 'You guys sound like me and my best friend!'

I think one needs a companion at some point in life.

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

I do have many close girlfriends; these relationships are paramount in my life.

My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.

All my closest friends are the ones I made while in college or who knew me growing up. They keep me grounded, and I adore that about them.

Ask any woman how she makes it through the day, and she may mention her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But if you push her on how she really makes it through her day, she will mention her girlfriends.

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.

We women often gauge our own self-worth by the quality of our interactions with our lovers. And often these interactions are interpreted for, described for, processed by our women friends. Relationships are the conduits through which flows our connection with each other.

I never have actually had a girl who's made me laugh before.

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends.

When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.