Laurie Graham Quotes

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

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

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

If you're understood in maybe, I don't know, 60% of your soul by your partner, that's fantastic. Don't expect that it's going to be 100%. Of course you will be lonely.

Not being as self-contained as men, we need to share things: It's almost as though you only know what you feel about things after you share them with a woman.

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

I can understand companionship.

I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.

What I've found in doing research is that men want a relationship that feels fun. In other words, they want a relationship that has qualities or elements of their same-sex relationships - just like women do, too.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life.

We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.

What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.

The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.

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

Can we ever really know anyone well? Let's just say we often found ourselves in each other's company and neither of us minded.

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.

It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.

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?

In this world, conversations are negotiations for closeness in which people try to seek and give confirmation and support, and to reach consensus. They try to protect themselves from others' attempts to push them away.

Just being with a group of girls and experiencing sadness together - it's a pretty powerful thing.

A lot of the things that we do in life are to find connection.

I think that sharing experiences with a person is very valuable, because it allows you to have a bond to become closer.

I try to make really close bonds with people.

Everybody understands companionship, wants it, gets it, no matter what it looks like.