Comments on: Friendships with Women: Getting by with a Little Help from Friends https://booksbywomen.org/getting-by-with-help-from-friends-by-patricia-sands/ Sun, 01 Oct 2017 06:06:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: Busting the Myth! You’re Never Alone in the Writing Community : Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/getting-by-with-help-from-friends-by-patricia-sands/#comment-48857 Sun, 01 Oct 2017 06:06:17 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=951#comment-48857 […] 2011 … I know! … that’s just ridiculous … and I apologize …  I wrote this post about women’s friendship for Women Writers, Women’s Books. At the time I had recently published […]

]]> By: Sunie Levin https://booksbywomen.org/getting-by-with-help-from-friends-by-patricia-sands/#comment-2174 Tue, 29 May 2012 22:18:03 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=951#comment-2174 I have been playing bridge for over 60 years and I know how important my bridge friends are to me. Women with close friends and strong support groups tend to sleep better, heal faster when they are hurt and experience less depression as they age. At age 81 I have friends of all ages, some 20 years younger than myself. I have met many women writers through the internet that have become my friends. Some people come into our lives and quietly go. Others stay awhile, make footprints in our hearts and we are never the same.

]]> By: Patricia Sands https://booksbywomen.org/getting-by-with-help-from-friends-by-patricia-sands/#comment-1898 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:15:08 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=951#comment-1898 In reply to Jo Carroll.

Jo, your women friends sound like the women in my novel, who also happen to be a very real part of my life. I understand your sentiments exactly and appreciate how fortunate we are to have these kind of invaluable connections.

]]> By: Jo Carroll https://booksbywomen.org/getting-by-with-help-from-friends-by-patricia-sands/#comment-1897 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:32:31 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=951#comment-1897 I’d be lost without my women friends – not just as a writer, but also as a woman. We’ve grown through marriages (I’ve one divorce, one widowhood, and some friends have had equally eventful relationships), children, ageing parents – all the roles that women fulfil and still rely on each other to know who we are underneath – strong, creative, feisty, original women.

I struggle to imagine live without writing – but life without my women friends would be impossible.

]]> By: Day 28 of 365 ~ Magic Mirrors « Observing Ourselves Observing https://booksbywomen.org/getting-by-with-help-from-friends-by-patricia-sands/#comment-1813 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:39:38 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=951#comment-1813 […] this, a mention of me/my post by Patricia Sands, author of The Bridge Club, in her guest blog, Friendships with Women: Getting by with a Little Help from Friends. She had written this in July, but for some reason I had not seen it, until […]

]]> By: Patricia Sands https://booksbywomen.org/getting-by-with-help-from-friends-by-patricia-sands/#comment-1812 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:29:30 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=951#comment-1812 In reply to Jeanette Harrietha.

Hello Jeanette and thanks for your very meaningful response. I have only discovered these comments today – Jan. 5, 2012. I’m so embarrassed! I’ll contact you at your AWESOME website.

]]> By: Patricia Sands https://booksbywomen.org/getting-by-with-help-from-friends-by-patricia-sands/#comment-1811 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:26:01 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=951#comment-1811 In reply to Monica Marlowe.

Hello Monica and happy new year!
I’m extremely embarrassed to say that I am just discovering your comment on Women Writers, Women Books from last July, today! For some reason, notifications did not come to me and I was too distracted by everything else in my life so neglected to check here myself. Mea culpa! Thank you for responding.
You are so right about friends being family and I can relate to that as well. For eight years in my forties I was widowed and, as much as my family was wonderful, it was my friends who really kept me afloat in the early years. I hope your relocation to South Carolina has gone well and that meaningful new friends have come into your life.
Again, my sincere apologies for this VERY delayed response!
All the best in 2012,

]]> By: Patricia Sands https://booksbywomen.org/getting-by-with-help-from-friends-by-patricia-sands/#comment-1810 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:20:14 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=951#comment-1810 In reply to Lav Chintapalli.

Hello Lav and thanks so much for your response. I tried to see how I might subscribe to your blog but could not locate the link. I’ll take another look.

]]> By: Patricia Sands https://booksbywomen.org/getting-by-with-help-from-friends-by-patricia-sands/#comment-1809 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:08:16 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=951#comment-1809 In reply to NettieWriter.

Hi there and happy new year! I’m extremely embarrassed to say that I am just discovering your comment today! For some reason, notifications did not come to me and I was too distracted by everything else in my life so neglected to check here myself. Mea culpa! Thank you for responding. I can certainly understand your comment about cyber-friends and also count myself lucky to have met a large number of amazing new friends online. It’s a fascinating new world!

]]> By: Lav Chintapalli https://booksbywomen.org/getting-by-with-help-from-friends-by-patricia-sands/#comment-1805 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:50:50 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=951#comment-1805 Patricia,

For starters, I am humbled that you would mention me on your note. Thank you.

Second, I wholeheartedly believe in what you stated, “.. to have a good friend, you must be a good friend.” At least that is where one starts. It might or might not work out, but I believe that one cannot expect something one cannot live by. And you definitely seem to walk your talk! Congratulations on your book!

Cheers,
Lav.

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