Anne Roiphe Quotes

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.

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

Your friend is your needs answered.

But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.

The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.

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.

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.

We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

Challenge is good for any relationship.

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Sometimes I want to be on 'The Real Housewives of New York.' I want to remind them to figure out how to get along and support each other.

I said, wouldn't it be nice, instead of having these women fight with each other over men, which seems to be more of a cliche, wouldn't it be wonderful if they were the true comrades and it took these men much more time to infiltrate their friendships.

Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers and there are times when we need to be nurtured.

Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn't.

Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

I'm just talking specifically of women's friendships. If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody.

Sisterhood is important to me.

Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.

Everyone wants to share what he or she has learned with someone who really cares.

I am thankful to all the people who have loved and listened to me.

I think in order to really create something special, it has to be built on some foundation. And I think friendship is a good foundation you could always tap back on if you don't agree. So for me, it's not dating, it's more so friendship.