James Patterson Quotes

I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.

I'm a total girl's girl.

I'm fascinated by female relationships.

I am a girl's girl all the way, always have been.

When I look around at this world, we women need each other so badly, it breaks my heart. Sisterhood is dissipating, and we aren't doing nearly enough to salvage it. Eliminate the crazies in your life, yes. But also look again at those around you.

I'm interested in female friendships and family relationships. So I don't write the traditional romance, where you just have the hero and the heroine's love story. I like intertwining relationships.

To be honest with you, I'm more of a girl's girl. I'm much more comfortable being around other girls.

I love to work on a set whether it's mostly men or mostly women, but there's something about being in a community of women that changes the energy.

I think women are amazing and women's friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film.

I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.

I think, growing up, the female friendships that I saw on television were portrayed as catty and vicious.

It's become my lifetime passion as a writer to try to show female friendships in the way that I see them, which is as emotional and connected and deep.

I really, really wanted to write about just female relationships with other females and things.

I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have a greater respect for women because of it.

Girls get competitive, as though there's only one spot in the world for everything _ but that's not true. We need to stick together and see there's more to life than pleasing men. It's important not to cut yourself off from female friendships. I think sometimes girls get scared of other girls, but you need each other.

There's no reason to do 'ex and the City' if it's not going to be everything 'Sex and the City' is, which is vibrant emotions, comedy, drama... and also, style.

Women do love each other; this whole women-against-each other, 'Dynasty' thing... we're not all after each other.

A lot of ink is given over to mythologizing female friendships as curious, fragile relationships that are always intensely fraught. Stop reading writing that encourages this mythology.

Personally, I, Mindy Kaling want to spend like 80 percent of my life hanging out with women.

What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.

I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other.

I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!

I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.

I think it's very rare that you see girl friendships on television. It's always cattiness and all that drama.

It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.