" Among the largely unacknowledged truths of female life is that women’s primary, foundational, formative relationships are as likely to be with each other as they are with the men we’ve been told since childhood are supposed to be the people who complete us. Female friendship has been the bedrock of women’s lives for as long as there have been women. "

― Rebecca Traister , All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation