Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

by Kayleen Schaefer

Notably, men often aren’t able to know women this same way. The writer Junot Díaz says the women he teaches can usually credibly write from a male point of view, but the guys can never write from a woman’s. “If you’re a boy writer, it’s a simple rule: you’ve gotta get used to the fact that you suck at writing women and that the worst woman writer can write a better man than the best male writer can write a good woman,”

“What’s Galentine’s Day?” Knope asks on the episode that aired on February 11, 2010. “Oh, it’s only the best day of the year. Every February thirteenth, my lady friends and I leave our husbands and our boyfriends at home and we just come and kick it, breakfast style. Ladies celebrating ladies. It’s like Lilith Fair, minus the angst. Plus, frittatas!”

get all those women together and CELEBRATE. Cherish your fond memories, make plans for the future and talk about how much you ADORE each other (preferably in song). Why? Because romantic relationships are fleeting, and messy and Valentine’s Day makes a lot of people feel miserable. But friendships are EVERYTHING.”

Galentine’s Day. “They don’t talk about their boyfriends or their husbands,” Schur says. “They don’t talk about bad things or strife or pain or misery. They set aside one day a year to just tell each other that they’re important and that they’re great and they’re wonderful people and just celebrate and drink champagne at ten in the morning.”

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