Thank You For Being a Friend

September is Women's Friendship Month, and while the month is over, it's never too late to celebrate the beauty of friendship!  Read on for five of our favorite fictional friendships:


Rosalind and Celia - Shakespeare's As You Like It

These Shakespearean cousins would clearly be friends even if they weren't related!  When Celia's father bans Rosalind from court, Celia promptly follows her friend into the Forest of Arden. Once there, she's more than happy to join Rosalind in donning disguises and enjoying the often complex, always hilarious antics of the forest. These are pals who know how to stay together through thick and thin -- but who also know how to have fun together.

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Anne and Diana - L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series

"Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world." So says Anne Shirley, the spunky, imaginative, orphaned hero of L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables books. When she arrives at Green Gables newly adopted, she is thrilled to discover there's another little girl her own age at the next house over -- Diana Barry, who quickly becomes Anne's BFF (or "bosom friend"). Their childhood friendship forms a bond that lasts throughout their lives -- and the book series.

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Laverne and Shirley -- Laverne & Shirley

Starring Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams, this ABC sitcom revolved around the lives of two roommates, co-workers, and best friends. Working together as bottlecappers in a Milwaukee brewery, the characters originally appeared as buddies of Fonzie on Happy Days before warranting their own spin-off show. The two friends were presented as polar opposites: Laverne is a tough-talking tomboy from Brooklyn, while sunny Shirley is a bit shyer and decidedly more optimistic. Their differences give the two gal-pals unique outlooks on life -- but it also makes for a fun, and decidedly hilarious, friendship.

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Blanche, Rose, Dorothy, and Sophia - The Golden Girls

Long before Samantha, Miranda, Carrie, and Charlotte -- there were the Golden Girls. The show revolved around a trio of women living as roommates in 1980s Miami: Dorothy, a no-nonsense but good-humored substitute teacher from New York; Rose, a simple but good-hearted counselor from Minnesota; and Blanche, a Southern belle who just manages to find time for her job at a local art museum in between her busy nightlife. And then there's Sophia, Dorothy's mother, who is perhaps the wisest -- and most mischievous -- of the bunch. Supporting each other through dating woes, family crises, and the challenges of changing lives, these gals are always there for each other. Usually over a cheesecake.

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Ashburn and Mullins - The Heat

Buddy cop movies are a dime a dozen -- but it's rare that the cops in question are women. In The Heat, Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy take center stage as the story's leading ladies. Bullock plays Ashburn, the tough-as-nails FBI agent whose strength and skill in the field isn't enough to win over her fellow agents when they come up against her unforgiving personality. It's not until she meets Mullins (Melissa McCarthy) -- a Boston plainclothes cop whose unorthodox methods seem to (usually) help, rather than hamper, her investigations -- that Ashburn may have finally found a partner, and a friend, who can understand her. It just might take a little effort for them to find a way to work together ... but you can count on there being plenty of laughs along the way.

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-- Post by Ms. B