Girls From OSU Week #1: The Intro

“Female friends show us a mirror of ourselves.” ~The Girls from Ames

Last summer, I read a great book called “The Girls From Ames” by Jeffrey Zaslow. The book is essentially about female friendships, and tells the story of them by looking at the 30 year friendship between a group of 10 girls who met while children in Ames, Iowa.

As you might have guessed if you’ve read this blog for a while, this made me think about my group of college girlfriends—College Roomie, Blonde Oklahoma Girl, Loud Oklahoma Girl, and myself.

I have several really great girl friends who I love to death and are each such an important part of my life, but there is only one “girl group” friendship in my life. It’s something special for a group of girls to have a friendship with each other in the way that we do. The Girls From Ames only confirmed this, and made me even more grateful for my own group of girls.

A couple of quotes in the book really struck me.

“When women are between the ages of twenty-five and forty, their friendships are most at risk, because those are the years women are often consumed with marrying, raising children, and establishing careers.”

“Being in each other’s company they feel like they are every age they ever were, because they see themselves through thousands of shared memories.”

“Only in adulthood have the girls come to recognize and appreciate the thousands of different destinies and decisions, going back generations in their families, that brought them together.”

“In saying ‘me,’ she meant, by extension, ‘them.’”

So…this week will be “Girls From Oklahoma State Week” on my blog. In anticipation of this, we all four read “The Girls From Ames” an have written a blog about our thoughts on our friendship, each other, the book, and female friendships in general. Stay tuned...