65 Best Galentine's Day Quotes About Celebrating With The Girls

Rajnandini Roychoudhury
Dec 12, 2023 By Rajnandini Roychoudhury
Originally Published on Feb 26, 2021
Edited by Isobel Murphy
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The concept of Galentine's Day was a creation of the series 'Parks And Recreation', all about celebrating our female friendships.

The Galentine's Day episode was aired in the last season of NBC's 'Parks And Rec'. This episode was all about women celebrating women and girl love.

Now Galentines Day is celebrated by thousands of girls and women all around the world! The power of best friends to brighten our day and make us smile is incomparable.

Going without them even for one day is impossible, and many say that those who have not felt the warmth of female friendship are missing out a great deal in life.

Of course, a loving relationship is important in our life, but the platonic love and mutual understanding between you and your true friends is the perfect final piece of the puzzle of many women's lives. For this reason, we should always choose our friends wisely.

The Galentine's Day episode of 'Parks And Rec' updates the age-old tradition of celebrating the love between a couple on Valentine's Day. Women mark Galentine's day on February 13th each year, to celebrate the platonic love among girlfriends, and often mark the occasion by addressing each other with heartfelt compliments.

So why not get your squad together every February to throw a Galentine's party with your gal friends? The Galentine's party could simply be cooking a delicious meal to enjoy with your closest girlfriends!

In this article, you will find the perfect captions for your Instagram posts that are empowering Galentine's sayings. There are also a few single on Valentine's Day quotes to uplift and celebrate your female friends every day of the year!

If you like this article on Galentine's Day quotes, check out these [Valentine single quotes] and empowering quotes too.

Leslie Knope Galentine's Day Quotes

Here are some 'Parks And Recreation' famous Leslie Knope quotes perfect for Instagram captions. These quotes are all about embracing the friendship with your gal pals on this Galentine's Day, so why not share these compliments with your sisters and girlfriends?

1. "You are the most beautiful, glowing, sun-goddess ever."

- Leslie Knope, 'Parks And Recreation'.

2. "You beautiful, naïve, sophisticated newborn baby."

- Leslie Knope, 'Parks And Recreation'.

3. "You shut your mouth. You have all the strengths."

- Leslie Knope, 'Parks And Recreation'.

4. "If there's a law against friendship, then lock me up."

- Leslie Knope, 'Parks And Recreation'.

5. "I guess some people object to powerful depictions of awesome ladies."

- Leslie Knope, 'Parks And Recreation'.

6. "I am a Goddess, a glorious female warrior."

- Leslie Knope, 'Parks And Recreation'.

7. "You poetic, noble, land mermaid."

- Leslie Knope, 'Parks And Recreation'.

More 'Parks And Rec' Galentine's Day Quotes

Female friends eating a watermelon slice and laughing together

Gear up for celebrating the power of true friendship with your girlfriends this Galentine's day by reading these Galentine's day sayings from 'Parks And Recreation'.

8. "We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work... Work is third."

- Leslie Knope, 'Parks And Recreation'.

9. "I care a lot. It's kinda my thing."

- Leslie Knope, 'Parks And Recreation'.

10. "Just remember, every time you look up at the moon, I, too, will be looking at a moon. Not the same moon, obviously, That's impossible."

- Andy Dwyer, 'Parks And Recreation'.

11. "I actually care whether you're having a good time and are happy. It's weird."

- April Ludgate, 'Parks And Recreation'.

12. "Can we have one conversation about feminism where men get to be in charge?"

- Kip Bunthart, 'Parks And Recreation'.

13. "We just come and kick it, breakfast style. Ladies celebrating ladies. It's like Lilith Fair, minus the angst. Plus frittatas."

- Leslie Knope, 'Parks And Recreation'.

14. "You're a beautiful, talented, brilliant, powerful musk ox."

- Leslie Knope, 'Parks And Recreation'.

15. "Do it. Fierce. Power."

- Leslie Knope, 'Parks And Recreation'.

16. "I'm gonna get drunk and then I'm gonna order a three course meal where each course is made of dessert."

- Leslie Knope, 'Parks And Recreation'.

Funny Galentine's Day Quotes

Here are some friendship quotes that celebrate woman power and the strong bond between best friends. Every person deserves to feel loved and so, we have the best quotes for you to always share with your gals, any time of the year.

If you need new ideas for captions for Galentine's Day pictures, you never know, you might find the perfect one here!

17. "True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style."

- Nicole Richie.

18. "Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend."

- Bill Watterson.

19. "What's Galentine's Day? Oh, it's only the best day of the year."

- Leslie Knope, 'Parks And Recreation'.

20. "We made a deal ages ago. Men, babies, it doesn’t matter… We’re soulmates."

- Samantha, 'Sex And The City'.

21. "With a good friend, the hours are short."

- Basque proverb.

22."'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected."

- Charles Lamb.

23. "Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting."

- Laurence J. Peter.

24. "You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."

- Wendi Deng Murdoch.

25. "The women were new friends but I loved them in a massive way. The love was like a large trove of devotion that could only be amassed over time, but it had arrived all at once. "

- Jenny Slate.

26. "Some people go to priests, others to poetry. I go to my friends."

- Virginia Woolf.

27. "A friend is what the heart needs all the time."

- Anna Deavere Smith.

28. "Maybe we could be each others' soulmates. Then we could let men be just these great, nice guys to have fun with."

- Charlotte York.

29. "It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."

- Marlene Dietrich.

30. "Every February 13th, my lady friends and I leave our husbands and our boyfriends at home, and we just come and kick it, breakfast-style."

- Leslie Knope, 'Parks And Recreation'.

31. "Women's friendships are like a renewable source of power."

- Jane Fonda.

32. "It's okay if most of your friends are guys, but if you champion this as a commentary on the nature of female friendships, soul search a little."

- Roxane Gay.

33. "I am big enough to admit that I am often inspired by myself."

- Leslie Knope, 'Parks And Recreation'.

34. "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

-Walter Winchell.

35. "Friendship is a wildly underrated medication."

- Anna Deavere Smith.

36. "A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."

- Bernard Meltzer.

37. "A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

-Doug Larson.

Galentine's Day Quotes For Mothers And Sisters

Galentine's Day may not strictly be about friends. For many girls, their main woman is your mother, and sometimes your sister can also be your best friend. Here are some quotes that will make you cherish sisterly love or motherly love this Galentine's Day.

38. "We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters’ lengthening flight."

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin.

39. "A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost."

- Marion C. Garretty.

40. "A mother's love endures through all."

- Washington Irving.

41. "A sister is a friend you don’t have to avoid the truth with."

- Michelle Malm.

42. "Sisters make the best friends in the world."

- Marilyn Monroe.

43. "Moms are the people who know us the best and love us the most."

-Unknown.*

44. "A mother and daughter's love is never separated."

-Viola Shipman.

45. "Sister. She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities."

- Barbara Alpert.

46. "A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend."

- Unknown.*

47. "A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves—a special kind of double."

- Toni Morrison.

48. "If you don't annoy your big sister for no good reason from time to time, she thinks you don't love her anymore. "

- Pearl Cleage.

Happy Galentine's Day Quotes

Make the women in your life happy and show them some love by sharing these Galentine's Day quotes with them.

49. "Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them."

-Anna Taylor.

50. "And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends... almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men."

- Virginia Woolf.

51. "A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself."

- Heidi Wills.

52. "I pray that my girls will find girlfriends half as loyal and true as the Ya-Yas."

- Rebecca Wells.

53. "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."

- Aristotle.

54. "A true friend is someone who never gets tired of listening to your pointless dramas over and over again.

- Lauren Conrad.

55. "There's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."

- Madeleine Albright.

56. "Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice."

- Otto von Bismarck.

57. "The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends."

- Gwyneth Paltrow.

58. "Together, we were a girl complete. Separately, we were inchoate and in need of each other, like solitary pieces of a clock that were useless until assembled, but once assembled, kept perfect time."

- Claire Fullerton.

59. "If I know what love is, it is because of you."

- Hermann Hesse.

60. "Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes heart warm."

- Augustine Birrell.

61. "My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

- Henry Ford.

62. "I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."

- Helen Keller.

63. "We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade."

- Caroline Sheridan Norton.

64. "There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls."

- Marilyn Monroe.

65. "A friend shares the good times and helps out by listening during the bad times."

- Molly Oliver.

Here at Kidadl, we have carefully created lots of interesting family-friendly quotes for everyone to enjoy! If you liked our suggestions for Galentine's Day quotes then why not take a look at Valentine's Day quotes for daughters or Valentine's Day quotes for kids too?

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Written by Rajnandini Roychoudhury

Bachelor of Arts specializing in English, Master of Arts specializing in English

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Rajnandini RoychoudhuryBachelor of Arts specializing in English, Master of Arts specializing in English

With a Master of Arts in English, Rajnandini has pursued her passion for the arts and has become an experienced content writer. She has worked with companies such as Writer's Zone and has had her writing skills recognized by publications such as The Telegraph. Rajnandini is also trilingual and enjoys various hobbies such as music, movies, travel, philanthropy, writing her blog, and reading classic British literature. 

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