I've been privileged to be able to be a part of some of my girlfriends' lives at their breaking points.
The potential strength of female friendship and the bonds that can be formed, especially over a lifelong relationship, is very profound.
It's become my lifetime passion as a writer to try to show female friendships in the way that I see them, which is as emotional and connected and deep.
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.
I'm always interested in relationships between women. I'm always interested in how women relate to each other, whether it's a family relationship or it's a friend relationship. That's such uncharted territory in cinema.
As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish.
Even good girls have secrets, ones even their best friends must guess.
I do make some conscious efforts to write female friendships, intergenerational female friendships. I make a conscious effort to include things that I see as important real parts of my life that are not reflected as much as I think they should be in popular culture. We very seldom have the opportunity to see women compete and remain friends.
We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.
No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.
I like films where there's a relationship between two women. I always think that's lovely to watch on the screen.
My mother is one of seven kids, so I have a lot of strong women in my family, and I have supportive, beautiful relationships with all of them.
Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.
I thought about ["Summer Sisters" ] so often as I was writing about these female characters who love each other and hated each other and were sort of in love with each other.
I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other. And I don't think anyone's really doing it.
Sister relationships span a huge range, from best friends to worst enemies. From 'I adore her; I talk to her five times a day' to 'I decided to cut her out of my life.' For most women, it's in between.
