Bad Ass Women

[amylee545]

My grandmother was a bad ass woman too. My grandfather was a dead beat dad. He gambled and drank all the time and was never home. Was always unemployed. My grandmother worked 3 jobs to support my mom and her 3 siblings. My grandfather always found a way to gamble her hard earnings away, to the point where they almost lost their house multiple times. She eventually kicked him out and got remarried to a wonderful man, and lived in the house that she worked so hard to keep up until the day she died last year. Rest in peace Mimi

[lgsdesigner]

Great stories, ladies!

Mine is about my late grandmother, Vivien.
She was very pro-women everything and felt a woman could do anything! She, against everyone's judgement, ran for mayor. She also lead huge protest to stand up for women's rights including setting up swimming pools in the front of the very man-only clubs and having women in the pools nursing their children. This was the 1940s.

She then has a yard sale, and wanted to allow people of all races to the sale (tons of racism back then). She placed signs in her front yard saying "Yard Sale: Black or White! All welcome!" Her neighbors were enraged and she loved it.

Lastly, she was in the FBI, and was a part of the controversial 1952 Texas alien discovery. Amazing lady!

(Not to mention...she had 5 kids!)

[lgsdesigner]

Jan 28, 2015 10:47:41 GMT -5 @babyweh said:

lgsdesigner I fucking love your grandmother.

I loved her, too. Miss her everyday. She was the fire in the family, and was the one that believed in me the most. 

[rocksforludo]

This is a great thread! I would have to say my mom. My dad passed away at the age of 33 when I was 3 years old and my brother was 18 months old. He had melanoma and basically had less than 6 months to live when diagnosed. Now that I have one kid and another on the way, I think about how she handled that literally every single day.

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Mine is about my mother. She is the most amazing role model and mother that I could have ever been blessed with.
She had me when she was 14 and my sister at 16. She married our father, but their relationship failed because he is an alcoholic who wasn't ready to grow up and be responsible. She worked three jobs and went to college to support my sister and I. After she divorced my father, she met my step father. She ended up getting pregnant, and had my brother at 21.
She was married to my stepfather for 13 years, and he was a very abusive/manipulative man. He tried to control her whole life, and was very abusive towards me my whole life. She finally found the strength to leave him, and do it all on her own. He continued to stalk her, and do horrible things to her, and to our family.
She never let any of that stop her from being a great mother and achieving her goals. She is a successful realtor now, and has put all of the bad things in the past. She is the most postitive influence I have in my life, and she doesn't let anything hold her back now. I'm very proud to call her my mama, and am very happy that my daughter has such a strong role model in her life. She came from nothing, had all of her children young, and struggled a lot, but has taught me that no matter how bad things get in life, there is always a silver lining and a way to get to where you want to be. She inspires me to be a better person, and I love her for it.

[radtechgirl]

My grandmother on my dad's side was the oldest of 8 when her mother died during child birth. So she helped raise her younger brothers and sisters till her dad remarried and sent her and her siblings off to different family members. She started working at the age of 14. Was married at 20. She raised 8 kids, and took care of the farm, while my grandfather was an over the road truck driver.
She was 59 when I was born and due to my mother's schizophernia, she raised me as one of her own. I am called her 9th child. She turns 90 next month.

[veenie]

It kinda feels wierd to like some of these. But, I like these because of the incredible things these ladies have over come, not because I like the story.

[lpick10]

Such good stories! I want to hang out with all these badass moms & grandmas!

[claudizzle]

Super inspiring! Great thread and thank you ladies for sharing these stories!

[ellabb043]

My grandmother is pretty amazing as well.
She was the first woman to earn both a bachelor's and master's degree from the local university and while on campus started up and ran the protests to allow women to wear pants (which they won the right to do!). She has traveled the world (usually alone since my grandfather passed years ago) and has taken every grandchild on a trip so that they will know how important travel is. She's 84 this spring and just got back from sailing the Panama Canal ( no joke ) and called my hubby and I a few weeks ago on the way to a Willie nelson concert. Pretty awesome way to live life especially for an Oklahoma girl raised on a farm.

lgsdesigner- I LOVE your grandmother!!

[cosmicav]

My mom didn't know how to speak English well until I was about 5, and she and my dad got divorced. She had three kids age 5 and under, and she had to step up and learn everything all by herself as well as get a job. She definitely was a badass. Unfortunately now she has some very serious mental/emotional health issues going on that have caused her to alienate my siblings and myself, and things have really changed, but I always will admire the things she did while trying to raise us.

If I am thinking of a badass lady I currently know, I would think of a co-worker of mine. She works two jobs, and her spouse is unable to drive or work due to medical issues, so she is the SOLE breadwinner for them. She has 5 kids total, and 2 are step kids that she adopted from an abusive situation. She is an AWESOME mom, too, always coming up with creative games and crafts for them to do. AND she just finished getting a bachelor's degree. I don't know how she is such a BAMF, I aspire to the dedication and motivation that she has! There are so many cool, badass ladies out there.

[IFinTN]

These are great stories! I think my mom is a badass because she went back to college at the age of 36 (I was 6) on a tennis scholarship!! She did not even learn to play until her late 20's. So not only fulfilling her academic dreams but she got to be a collegiate athlete. My parents still play tennis a few times a week:)

[bethypoo83]

My mom is pretty badass. She left my dad when I was 2 to get away from abuse and alcoholism and raised my brothers and I alone until she married my step dad. She always worked a full time job but never made us feel like she wasn't fully dedicated to us. Set a great example for me of how to be fulfilled in your career and home life, got a BA in her 40s and now is the greatest, most involved and fun grandma to my brother's 3 kids. I'm secretly jealous for my LO that he won't have the same experiences that my nieces and nephew get (DH and I live about 2 hrs from my parents).

My BFF is also a total badass woman. She's an executive with a private airline, takes shit from no one and is so well respected in her industry. She's also kind, generous and supremely funny lady. My favourite part is despite all of the criticism she gets for being single at 38 (and unapologetically so) she has no bitterness towards people and simply shows them how fulfilling her life is. She makes her dreams happen and lives the way she wants to. It's so refreshing. Plus, she is the favourite "aunt" of all of our friend's children and is going to be the best godmother in the world to my little man.