13 Stories Proving That Female Solidarity Turns Ordinary Women Into Legends

They say women are each other’s worst enemies, until life proves otherwise. These 13 real stories show how, when one woman stands up for another, the world tilts just a little more toward justice. Raw, emotional, and unforgettable.

• I went into a grocery store while walking to my friend’s house (it was a 5-min walk that I did at least every other day). When I was checking out, the manager came over and told me to follow her. I was freaking out because I thought I did something wrong, but turns out the cashier had noticed a guy follow me in and had paged the manager to keep an eye on him on the security feed.
  He had followed me all around the store (approx 30 minutes) and was two people behind me in line with nothing in his hands to check out. The manager waited with me until I got my friend to pick me up and drive me to her place. Forever thankful for those two amazing women. © lilratchel / Reddit

• Our boss fired a colleague just because she ignored his flirting—and trashed her reputation so badly she couldn’t find work. A week later, he stormed into the office, pale as chalk, muttering, “It’s over. I lost everything.”
  Turns out, our sharp-witted receptionist had secretly recorded his sleazy conversation with that colleague: the flirting, the rejection, all of it, and sent the tape to HR and the CEO. HR investigated, fired him with the worst references imaginable, and guess who took his spot? Yep, the very woman he tried to destroy.

• One time in a bar, a girl I didn’t know approached me and asked for a tampon. I told her I didn’t have any and, in fact, was kind of in the same situation as her. She looked me straight in the eyes and promised me she’d find tampons for both of us. She actually came back about 10 minutes later and handed me a tampon. © thefastleen / Reddit

• My daughter (13) just wrapped up 8 performances of a local community theater production for which she was the lead. Her bestie attended at least 3 of the shows and during curtain call each time she stood up and screamed, “Woohoo that’s my bestie!!!! Way to go!!!” I told my daughter having a hype girl on your side is an irreplaceable gift. © wally265 / Reddit

• My best friend had a very rough divorce. Her husband was messing around with other women while they were in their last few months of their marriage.
  One of the women felt something was up and didn’t believe all the things he told her about my friend, who he was already referring to as his ex. My friend is a townie, and she had heard of her and seen her a few times, and just couldn’t imagine some of the awful things he was saying.
  She didn’t let him get any further, cut him off, and contacted my friend. They had lunch and she told my friend everything.
  Fast-forward about a year and a half, they’re now good friends and I hang out with her too. She’s a great, solid person. He’s long gone. Gotta love it. © Unknown author / Reddit

• I went to a concert alone for the first time this year at 18 and in the queue I was surrounded by groups of guys who kept checking me out. It made me really nervous (I honestly thought about just leaving) but then this girl came over to say I looked lonely and asked if I wanted to join their group. Ended up having an amazing time with them all, and they made me feel a lot safer. © Unknown author / Reddit

• I’m a nurse and I work in a unit that is almost exclusively female staff. One of our coworkers, it turns out, was in a very destructive relationship and needed to flee with her children, and was worried because she didn’t feel safe, she didn’t have any extra money, or a place to stay.
  The rest of the staff (and there are eight of us total including this particular nurse) got a fund together, and moved her and her children out of her house, and into one of our coworker’s family, Summer cabin (a near by lake). We made all of this happened in 48 hours.
  She lived there rent-free with her kids for a couple of months while she got her self together and then got her own place with her kids. When women been together to help other women, they are unstoppable. © Joygernaut / Reddit

• My tiny 15-year-old personality deciding that crowd-surfing at a Nickelback concert was a good idea. I was dropped and nearly stepped on. I remember a girl putting herself over top of me and pulling me up. I’m still grateful for that. © seashell_eyes / Reddit

• I met my best friend in elementary school. Our moms instantly bonded because they were both young, struggling moms who were learning how to navigate single parenthood.
  My mom had gone through a divorce a few years prior, and her mom was in the middle of one. They held each other up in so many ways. A shoulder to cry on, extra food, hand-me-down clothes, childcare, etc.
  One of my favorite examples is that they would share a Christmas tree every year. My family would always go out of town about a week before Christmas.
  We would get the Christmas tree and enjoy it for a few weeks, and when we left, my friend’s mom would come to our house and take our tree and set it up at their house. They otherwise probably wouldn’t have been able to afford a tree.
  My best friend and I are like sisters, and I think part of the reason our friendship is so close is because our moms set such an amazing example of friendship. © Scared-Seaweed4758 / Reddit

• Once we decided to go get tattooed together. (Super small, not matching. Just, we all got tattoos at the same time.) While we were there, a little girl, probably about 6 or 7, came in to get her ears pierced while we were waiting.
  It was her choice and she was super excited, but clearly nervous. We hyped her up and told her she’d be fine. She went back, got them pierced, and we could hear her start to cry a little.
  As soon as she walked out, we all lost our minds and immediately started praising her, “OH MY GOD, YOU LOOK AMAZING.” etc. Her smile is forever in my brain. She immediately lit up the whole building. So excited to have hit this milestone and be a big girl. © Unknown author / Reddit

• As I walked into the store, a guy was leaning out the window of his car trying to talk to me. I pass by him without engaging him. As I’m waiting in line at the checkout, a woman comes back into the store, after she had previously left, and asked me, clearly, “You drove here, right?”
  I was confused, and she pressed, “Do you have a car?” I said I didn’t, and she continued to tell me that the guy parked out front had been watching me, and had moved his car to park behind some bushes, and was waiting for me to leave.
  She offered me a ride and I (stupidly) refused. I took a different route home, though, while face timing a friend. She was a stranger to me, but she looked out for me, and protected me from something that could have been terrible. © Dizzy_Tension_3545 / Reddit

• My online mom group. It started 25 years ago as a text-only message board where new mothers talked about raising our babies and work/life balance. Members have come and gone, but we are still a core group of about 50 women, now supporting each other through caring for elderly parents, cancer, divorce, deaths, job loss, etc. and celebrating the good things in life.
  Those babies we raised are getting married, having their own babies, getting PhDs, and running the world. I didn’t have a great local group of mom friends, so my online group filled the gap. © queenie_sabrina / Reddit

• There was a young woman in our neighborhood with a cruel husband. Everyone sensed trouble but stayed silent.
  One day, I found her outside in tears, wearing only her home robe. He’d kicked her and their child out. I took them in for a week. Then they vanished, along with my car savings. I didn’t call the cops, though I felt betrayed.
  A month later, while cleaning, I found the money, plus extra, in a drawer where I keep old kitchen stuff, along with a note: “You were the only one who cared. Please accept this as thanks. I hope it helps you get your car sooner. My child and I will be safe now. Forever grateful, Lynn.”
  Apparently, I’d moved the money to another place and forgot, and she added some extra. I’m still grateful I trusted my gut, and her.

No capes. No spotlights. Just people choosing decency when no one’s watching. These 13 moments prove that small acts can light up entire lives, and maybe even save one.