He became my confidante, someone with whom I could share thoughts I could never voice...In exchange, he trusted me with his.
It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
I was just always the girl that people would come and talk to about their problems, and I still am.
Muriel, my mother, was my main confidant. She was a teacher of English at Watford grammar school but took a break while my sister Madeleine and I were children. She held court in the kitchen, and we talked about everything.
An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
I always say that when you have friends that are girls, you tell each other everything.
The only human being I could tell everything was my sister Françoise. She and I were so diametrically different; put together we would have been a fantastic woman.
A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.
There are a lot of kids out there that look at me as their mother, and I have my two biological children, and there are so many queens that look at me as an aunt or some sort of confidante, and I can absorb it really well.
My mother was my best friend and confidante.
All you needed is what every girl needs, a good friend. Someone to talk to, to share with, to run things by.
My mom is my best friend. I tell her everything from what's going on in my life and my work to my love life.
Of course we had our arguments; we had everything, but at the end of the day, that was still my mother, my confidante - my everything.
I've always been the go-to girl for all of my girlfriends in terms of relationship advice or clothing advice.
My dog was with me all the time. I talked to my dog. She was my best buddy. I shared all my secrets with her, but I don't think I every really tried jokes out with the dog.
I had an amazing advantage: a grandmother [Polly Noonan, an influential confidante of the mayor of Albany] who loved politics. She taught me not to listen to negative press or people. I grew up knowing politics was rough-and-tumble.
