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Great Moments in Female Bonding

From 'Little Women' to Taylor Swift and Beyonce, we track history's best examples of girl power.

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1868 Little Women, Big Message

While Dad’s off fighting for the North, Marmee and the resourceful March sisters form a tight, loving unit of their own.
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1869 Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony Join Forces

Stanton has the big ideas, Anthony the organizational skill. Together, wild corsets can’t keep them down.
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1907 Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas Defy Convention

Who needs Hemingway? These belles toll for each other. The longtime pair are famed for their Paris salon.
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1952 Lucy & Ethel: Faster than a Speening Bonbon

The pals share the wackiest of schemes, most memorably a stint on a supercharged chocolate-factory conveyor belt.
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Mary & Rhoda Prove There's (Single) Life After 30

 

Sweet Mary turns the world on with her smile; sly Rhoda wields a wisecrack like a shiv. Together, they’re gonna make it after all.
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1985 The Color Purple: Sisters Doing It for Themselves

In Alice Walker’s acclaimed novel turned movie, set in Georgia in the early 1900s, a supportive circle of women overcome male brutality.
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1985 The Golden Girls Reveal the Secret of Eternal Youth

Nothing retiring about these roomies. Their verve comes from matching wits and hatching schemes—i.e., being best buds.
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1986 Princess Diana & Duchess Fergie Shake Up the Palace

These merry wives of Windsor break royal rules with antics that include dressing up like bobbies to crash Prince Andrew’s bachelor party.
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1993 Generations Come to Terms in The Joy Luck Club

Over mah-jongg and dim sum, traditional tiger moms and their Chinese-American daughters make peace with the past and with each other.
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1997 Barbara Walters's The View Breaks the Daytime Mold

These powerful, diverse and highly opinionated women don’t agree on much—except that they relish talking and tangling.
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1998 Carrie Bradshaw & Pals Shatter Taboos in Their Jimmy Choos

Raise a cosmopolitan to the Sex and the City BFFs, so key to one another’s lives that Big and the other guys seem like fifth wheels.
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2001 Elizabeth & Debbie Forget Eddie Fisher

Proving they’re so over that messy love triangle, Taylor and Reynolds film the TV movie These Old Broads.
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2002 Frenemies Velma & Roxie Dance Away From Murder

Chicago’s antiheroines battle for headlines and a lawyer but find success as a two-person act.
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2003 Madonna Kisses Britney at the Video Music Awards

What’s a little lip-lock between icon and pop tart? Just a coupla chanteuses getting chummy.
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2008 Sarah Palin Meets Her Doppel-Ganger (Tina Fey) on SNL

None dare call it friendship; only their suits are in sync. What unites them: the ability to hold the spotlight and excite a crowd. 
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2009 Beyonce Rescues Taylor Swift from Kanye West

Pros show up bros: After the rapper interrupts Swift’s VMA speech, Beyoncé gives her airtime.

 

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First Published October 25, 2011

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