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Quotes About Connection

My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts.
~ Patricia McConnell
If it's not true love, then that energy will gradually wear the subtle physical down.
~ Frederick Lenz
Much of the time your attention is directed towards the world of sexuality, it's done through the second attention of a woman - not simply in your physical presence but from thousands of miles away.
~ Frederick Lenz
I envision a world filled with women traveling alone and meeting each other on the path.
~ Sark
Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.
~ Gish Jen
Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that conversation, and renew their own early times.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine love, human love, parental love, Roughly discriminated for the rough.
~ Robert Frost
Women's networks are a necessary part of life. A mixture of empathy and brainstorming can move mountains.
~ Hazel Hawke
Tous les jours on couche avec des femmes qu'on n'aime pas, et l'on ne couche pas avec des femmes qu'on aime. Every day we sleep with women we do not love and don't sleep with the women we do love.
~ Denis Diderot
Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.
~ Edward Abbey
Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.
~ Elizabeth Janeway
Beautiful quality that women have, which is we like to get together and gab. It's time to elevate that aspect of being a woman.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution.
~ Ellen Key
I think the issue of female friendship really resonates well with women, ... So many women have a friend like Darcy or can relate to the feeling of being second-fiddle to a friend.
~ Emily Giffin
I don't see my old films, but I think of the characters I played as friends, like the women I meet in my life who made strong impressions on me. I remember them and they are part of me.
~ Emmanuelle Beart
My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, 'But that's happened to ME! I know just what she's talking about!
~ Erma Bombeck
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.
~ Eve Ensler
As my meditative experiences grew, I had wonderful relationships. I met the most wonderful women, who meditated and shared certain understandings that I had.
~ Frederick Lenz
As a woman you must unite with other women for a while and perhaps even reject the world of men, just to balance yourself.
~ Frederick Lenz
You must ban together with other women of like mind and for the first time find fellowship, womanship, without the need to compete, without having to climb to the top over each other.
~ Frederick Lenz
Son, heed my instruction, and apply thyself to know women; let thine eyes observe her when she is with another, for what she doeth with him, she will do with thee, also.
~ Gelett Burgess
How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?
~ Georg Buchner
One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
~ Gertrude Stein
They say men and women can't be friends, but that's not true.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin