There is nothing like beauty and friendship at the same time!!! Here I am today, at my beautician, also called Maria! The beauty salon is studied academically as a source of female strength - see for example work by Ann J. Cahill and Paula Black.
Literature is full of excellent female friendships: who can forget Jane and her dear friend Ellen Burns in Jane Eyre, and Sara and Ermengarde in A Little Princess? Or Anne and Diana in Anne of Green Gables? Rosalinde and Celia in Shakespeare's As You Like It? Examples are endless.
One writer who has appreciated the ups and downs of female friends is Jane Austen - I am talking about Elizabeth Bennett and Charlotte Lucas in Pride and Prejudice. Through her relationship with Charlotte, Elizabeth learns that friends do not always have to agree or see things the same way.
Marilyn Yalom has just written a history of female friendship - can't wait to buy this and read!!!
😎 bye for now xxx
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