My friend Miranda and I were talking about this a few weeks ago, when I was first toying with the idea of this post, and she so beautifully said, “I look at all of you [my girl friends] and I see pieces I want to take from each of you.” How brilliant is that? Here we are, afraid to be like other girls, when, instead, we can focus on cultivating meaningful friendships with women that we admire. Instead of looking to other women through a fearful comparison of who we don’t want to be, what if we, conversely, looked to other women for inspiration of who we do want to be?