Glo's Girl Crushes of the Week: Besties Edition

BY NATASHA BURTON For years, Oprah and her best pal Gayle King have created meaningful memories through their Big Adventure road trips. Nothing beats girls-only time with your BFF to ease stress and lift your spirits.

As Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton showed, best friends support each other. These ladies were lucky enough to be great friends and fight side by side for the same important cause — women's rights!

Ann Patchett's friendship with fellow writer Lucy Grealy, who suffered permanent disfigurement due to jaw cancer, showed that true pals stick together in hard times. Ann wrote a memoir about their friendship called Truth & Beauty that's a must-read.

Longtime BFFs Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox are a good example of friends who give each other special treatment: Jen's got a guest star gig on Courteney's show, Cougartown. And we should treat friends as if they're special — because they are!

Michelle Obama's best pal Santita Jackson shows the importance of loyalty in friendship. Whenever she's approached by the press to talk about her BFF, Santita always has something nice to say about Michelle, from her role as First Lady to her fashion choices.

Taylor Swift and her BFF Abigail are partners in crime. Okay, not literal crime, but the pair has been known to sneakily drive past their ex-boyfriends' houses together, according to an interview Taylor did with CMT.

Pride and Prejudice author Jane Austen found her BFF right within her own family — her cousin Jane Cooper. Jane and Jane were sent to be educated in Oxford as teens, and they allegedly kept in touch by writing letters to each other throughout their lives.

Rumors are swirling that this BFF pair may have split up, but we still admire how Gwyneth Paltrow and Madonna bonded when they were both expats living in Great Britain and became great friends.