Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

by Kayleen Schaefer

I’m always with you. I won’t forget about you when you walk away. I am here when I’m standing in front of you or any other time you need me, no matter what.

When Judy Blume was writing what turned out to be her bestselling book ever, Summer Sisters,

Megan Abbott is a crime novelist who often writes about consuming, sometimes appalling, teenage girl friendships, like the best friends in Dare Me, a thriller about high school cheerleaders that was published in 2012.

Heathers, the 1988 dark comedy about high school cliques in which one member of the popular group of girls—called the Heathers—wishes the Queen Bee dead.

Thelma & Louise, a film released in 1991 starring Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, and written by Callie Khouri, was about a duo who runs from the law after one of them kills a man who is attempting to rape the other.

“I know a lot of people like to think that Derek is [Meredith’s] soulmate,” Rhimes told Entertainment Weekly, “but I think that Cristina is her soulmate and Derek is the man she loves, and that’s lovely. I have these friendships, you know? And I’ve had really close friends, who were [and] still are my closest friends in the world, move away, and it’s devastating. And I was surprised by how devastating it was—being a grown woman and having my own life and my own family and everything. But it’s devastating in a way . . . You are somebody special when you’re with that best friend.”

My friends inspire me to pull myself together, to shake off whatever might be trying to rattle me that day, or to own what I’ve done well. Just being around them is often all the propping that I need.

The Webster is one of the few remaining all-female residences in New York,

There’s a sense, among women at least, that achievement is a zero-sum game, and we’re supposed to be cutthroat at all times.

The Joy Luck Club

Waiting to Exhale,

Girls Trip

Life Partners,