herstory
When I was a kid, my grandma gave me brief snippets of what her life was like before I knew her. I wish that I could still ask her to go into more depth. I want to know what she would have thought of today's election. I think she would be proud of all the women standing up. My grandma was born in 1928, eight years of the passage of the 19th Amendment. She was a firecracker. I think, in her own way, she was a feminist. She may not have called herself one, though I really don't recall if she did or not, but her actions and words that I remember lead me to believe that she was a feminist. It's a shame that many of us don't think to ask the important questions until we're older and it's too late. My paternal grandmother passed when I was 19, thus, it's been over ten years. Though she was aging, it was somewhat unexpected. We always think we have time, and we really, truly don't. I was different than a lot of kids my age, around me at lea...