Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

Friendships naturally shift over life. We have different friends for different times in our lives, and sometimes it's not the best idea to hang on to a friendship to try to make it work if it's an unhealthy connection.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

I do have many of the same friends I grew up with. Most I've known since we were three or four years old! I have made new friends as well.

As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I'm like, 'Oh my goodness gracious - that's so insane.' I also have friends who are just doing their own thing, which is cool.

I don't have a lot of friends; most of the friends I have, I've had since high school.

The dynamics are pretty much the same among me and my friends as they were when I was 18 years old.

It is more difficult to maintain friendship with people that you work with five minutes ago, than from many years ago. For some reason we've just remained friends, we talk to each other all the time. For a while, for years, we spent New Year together.

It's great because all of my friends from elementary school are still my closest friends.

What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.

I'm happy with the people that I have around me. And they've been friends of mine since I was young, for a very long time.

I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.

I don't hang out with the glitteringly successful people; I hang out with people who've been friends for many years, and to some extent I feel my worldly success is a bit uncomfortable for them.

Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

My closest friends today are, in fact, my friends from college.

I have a very fun husband. He's managed to hang on to every person he's known since grammar school.

Most of my friends tend to be people who I've known since I was at school.

I've stayed friends with the boys I've known since I was 10.

I've kept most of my friends for decades, and I continue to make new friends.

The relationships that I've built there, and the people that I've come across, I met some of my best friends in life at the University of Texas.

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.

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

The marriages come and go but your friendships stay, which is the opposite of what it used to be, so that there will be people in our lives for 30 years and often it is not your husband, it's your women friends, male friends with whom you come of age.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

People who continue to nurture long-term and new friendships as they grow older are more likely to enjoy health and vitality.

Just being friends with people now for over 15 years, you realize what we all came out of. What we came out of was the intense feeling of growing up. It sounds kind of cliché, but it's true.