Push it real good!

I have a confession.  I am a pushy broad.  I don't mind being a pushy broad.  It can be quite useful at times.

I come from a long line of pushy broads - my mother, my grandmother were all pushy broads.  I got it honestly.

Pushy broads don't just push others around.  They push envelopes, they push stereotypes, they push buttons.  They got women the vote, they helped abolish slavery, they fight for child's rights. 

What makes a woman a pushy broad?  Is it her intellect, her refusal to back down, her steadfastness to her beliefs?  I suppose at one point that was something to be feared - a smart woman with a backbone.

Carrie Chapman Catt was a pushy broad back when pushy broads for jailed for not keeping their opinions to themselves.  It was her work in suffrage that helped get me the right to vote.  Thanks, Carrie.

Gloria Steinem is sometimes considered the pushiest of the pushy broads.  She has mellowed as she has aged, but I still remember seeing her speak on television back in the 70s.  She was powerful then, and she is powerful now.

Hillary Clinton is the country's most despised pushy broad, though I have a love for old Hill.  She stood by Bill when lesser women would have castrated him and put the video on youtube.  She says what she thinks, and whether you agree with it or not, you have to respect a woman with that size of brass balls.

So I will keep pushing.  I will be that pushy broad.  I will do my best to make the pushy broads that came before me proud.