Women's Friendships Lift Moods, Save Lives

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Mothers and daughters, sisters and cousins, school chums and co-workers are experiencing healthier living through female friendship, whether newly acquired or so long a part of life that it's in our DNA. My own Crone group goes back to junior high school. I don't know what I'd do without these special women in my life. They give me a joie d'vivre that I find nowhere else in quite the same way.

The writer Anais Nin understood the value of female friendship. She wrote, "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they
arrive..." So did actress Marlene Dietrich: "It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter," she said. Any woman with friends like that not only has a precious gift; she may well have a longer, happier life too.

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Elayne Clift is a writer,lecturer, workshop leader and activist. She is senior correspondent for Women's Feature Service, columnist for the Keene (NH) Sentinel and Brattleboro (VT) Commons and a contributor to various publications internationally. (more...)

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