Elizabeth Berg Quotes

All my friends are female, I've edited for a magazine for young girls for 15 years, I relate to women, and I'm very, very close to my younger sister.

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.

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the world. I think we're in this together.

I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.

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.

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

When you have girlfriends, and you get into it, and you share your flaws, and you're like, 'Oh my God. I almost had my period all over that chair,' or whatever. That's how we connect, right?

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

We're all about girl power and everything, but we cry sometimes, and we're softies, so we can't always be like, 'Woo, girl power. We're going to come dominate the boys, blah blah blah.' That's not always the case, which is why us girls have each other to lean on and give each other advice.

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

I grew up in a house of all girls, which was interesting. I think it made me a lot less catty because a lot of girls, especially who are around my age, are very catty and very mean to each other.

Women find little pleasure in the society of women.

I think women should be there for each other and to support each other.

I've been reading 'The Sisterhood,' and I love the author Bobbie Houston and what she's about. It's the whole idea of women celebrating each other's wins and journeying through life together.

I'm fascinated by female relationships.

I talk about a lot of issues I go through and some of my fans go through and try to create a fellowship where people can relate to each other.

Me and my mates are very, very close. We all talk about our problems - especially as we've got older. But I don't think a lot of people have that.

Loyalty, support, and 'the sisterhood' are there in spades in 'Jamestown.'

I really enjoy writing about female friendship. It's an endlessly interesting dynamic for me.

I think we see too much female-on-female hating each other on TV. We should stick together.

100 percent at all times I believe in girl code.

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

We've always had each other's backs in and out of competition. We support each other the most because we're the only ones that know what it's like to go through what we do, and so we can't be more thankful for each other. We're like sisters.

Women should get together and become the pillars of support for each other.