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Hmmmm, real life in the flesh role models? That's a toughie for me because I set standards up so high, then always seem to get disappointed by ppl. So, yeah oddly enough, celebs came to mind first. My mother, sad to say, is not a role model at all and I feel that it has been unfortunate for me in that I am always striving to find one in my life....
Guess, I'd have to say, Tori Amos. She's struggled much in the same way as me and has managed to create a platform to tell the women of the world to stay strong and it's okay to fall pretty far as long as you keep striving to get up and make changes. She's come a long way and she really moves me emotionally.
So, for today, my t is starting to fit the bill, but there again, I put her up high and that just sets her up to fall....

id have to say my mother is one of my role models. shes gets confused and lost and doesnt always trust herself and makes a lot of mistakes but every single time she gets up and keeps going. she apologises in a flash when shes wrong, everything she does is motivated by love and kindness and she has touched the lives of so many people. she has her major downsides but to me shes perfection in her flaws.
also id have to say melissa etheridge. shes over come so much and watching her develop and being touched by every lyric ive heard of hers has been an inspiring experience. its fantastic to see her apparently happy now and sharing that and her strength and hope and support with the world.
mary robinson is another role model. shes the former first female president or ireland and the former un high commissioner for human rights. despite how difficult she found holding both of those positions because of her gender and her drive to uphold human rights and make the world a genuinely better and more peaceful place, especially for the unlucky people in life she continued and continues to do what she can and stands out like a beacon for me as to where you can get to if you accept the limitations that are everywhere in life and then push them diplomatically as far as they can go. she balances her power and her need to help very well as far as i can see and seems to care nothing for her own popularity.
and finally, an online friend of mine who has been through hell on earth and back and yet still moves steadily forward gaining balance visibly as she goes on. i want to be as strong, determined and positive as her. ive only ever seen one photo of her but to me her personality makes her one of the most beautiful people in my life.
ok im done.

I had role models as I was growing up, but have since realized that they were so stereotypical, and sometimes unfavorable, that I didn't think about them to list here first...

...there were many women who helped me, teachers,and Girl Scout leaders mainly.

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My godmother is my role model. She taught me a lot of important things.. she's very old and very wise

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The only female role model we ever had was our swimming coach who died in a car accident when we were about 12. She stopped our parents from holding us down every night & pouring in barbituates. She was Dutch, & she fought for the resistance during WW2.

My 2nd mom --- she accepted me for who I was then and who I have become

Oprah Winfrey~I like her because she started at the bottom and worked her way up and became a very strong women even thou she's been through alot in her life as a Child and an Adult.

Oprah is my Role Model

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I have looked at this thread a million times it seems like.I wasnt able to write about my role model until and i am still not sure i cant type this without crying.

My role model is my neighbor. She is a beautiful mom of 4 young kids. She is a mom who is fighting for her life.She is dieing of breastcancer turned liver cancer. She is a woman that is one of my best friends. i have to admit that when i first met her I wasnt sure i would ever be here friend. She was very straight forward, tell it like it is.
So bold, so loud! Even down right bossy! never the less I took a chance and got to know her. It will never be a choice i will ever regret!

I called her crazy, she said she was fine, but three days after having a masectomy to remover cancer from her breast the crazy woman was outside push mowing her yard. She said she had to cause no one else would. I told her she shouldnt be doing that and she just laughed and said, I am great!
needless to say my husband took her mower away from her and he mowed the yard for her.

Soon she would lose her hair. IT didnt stop her. she just wrapped her head in a bandana tied over a blonde wig and moved on. Whenever I would ask her how she was she would just laugh and say I am great!
The breast cancer was gone. her hair grew back and she was so proud of her fuzz, she even called me over to her house to help her bleach what fuzz she had!!! ( i told you she was crazy)
Then the unthinkable happened... the cancer came back. This time in her liver. I will never forget the words she said to me... and she said them with a smile! I will not give up! I will fight until I cant anymore!
She told the doctors to make sure she got to see her youngest start kindergarten. guess what she made it!

I have to say that she is my role model, because even with the hand she has been delt, she never sat in cried in self pity. She always had the attitude of I am going to beat this!

We have spent many night swinging in the old porch swing on her back porch, Just talking, laughing! I always walked back home with a brighter out look on life! I always felt great about me!

If I learned anything at all from her is that no matter how bad the pain, no matter how bad you want to give up, you have the strength within in to keep going! She also taught me to laugh daily! It cleans the soul she would say! When things look grim, laugh!

She sounds like a really exceptional lady!!!!!!!