Shirley Knight Quotes

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

I always say that when you have friends that are girls, you tell each other everything.

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.

You forge different bonds with friends than with family, tell different secrets.

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.

The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.

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.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

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

We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then, just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.

I always say about my husband, no matter what what we're going through in life, I would rather hang out with him more than any other person.

I really love, honestly, just being with your best girlfriends.

It's who you get to share life with, not the actual experiences, that makes living so worthwhile.

Chris Martin is my best friend.

Friends. They aren’t any such thing as good friend or bad friend. Maybe there are just friend. People who stand by you when you're hurt and who helped you feel not so lonely. Maybe there are worth being scared for and hoping for and living for. Maybe worth dying for too. If that what has to be. No bad friends. Only people you want. Need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.

Best friends are important. They're the closest thing to a sister you'll ever have.

The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

Men come and go - God knows they certainly have in my life - but girlfriends are for ever. I have a lot of girlfriends but only a few very, very close ones.

The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.

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.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.