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Female Friendship articles

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Female friendship has been celebrated across many cultures as an important social, emotional, and even spiritual factor in women’s lives, especially in places where women do not have the same access to social and political spaces as men, or where the access that is offered doesn’t take into account experiences or circumstances unique to women. Relationships between women can follow patterns that differ from cross-gender or male friendships, and there have been many thoughts on the best way to foster, strengthen, and heal them.

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The Importance of Female Friendships

Whether you have a few besties or a whole goddess crew, your female friendships enhance your life in so many ways you might not even understand. No matter how strong you may be, everybody needs some sisters to lean on.

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Why Women’s Friendships Are So Complicated

Women place a premium on knowing the details of their loved ones’ lives, which can make their relationships as fraught as they are gratifying.

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The Importance of Female Friendships Among Women

Unbreakable female bonds can solidify your happiness.

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Our Expectations of Millennial Friendships Don’t Prepare Us for the Reality

While there can be no doubt about the power of female friendships, lately I have been wondering whether we place too much pressure on them and whether our expectations of one another are realistic.

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‘At First, We Were Jealous of Each Other’: The Highs and Lows of Female Friendships

Why do female friendships tend to be more intense? And what happens when they end?

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My Friend, My Self

Female friendship is central to much recent fiction and film. What can it say about the role of relationships in identity?

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What Rebecca Taught Me About Faith

Tara Sophia Moore discusses her experience of sharing the news of her pregnancy with a close friend and that friend's issues with her own pregnancy in the months that followed.

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How We Develop Female Friendships Through Life

Most female friendships start in college and during the early years of marriage. Some women are fortunate and develop long-lasting friendships in high school or as far back as childhood. I was not one of those lucky women.

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The Challenge of Forming Female Friendships When You’re Autistic

Painful memories of childhood along with gendered social norms can make adult friendships more complicated for neurodiverse women.

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Why I’m Over Women’s ‘Empowerment’

It can’t be about “empowerment” any longer. To make real progress, it has to be about power—using and growing the power we women already have.

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