I'm not going to be endorsing any candidate on here today because I know what comments would follow, but instead I just want to say that it's an awesome feeling to vote. For me as a woman and know the history behind how women won the right to vote.
It was a win, a victory, for women to be able to vote. It was until the twentieth century (1920) that women got the right to vote. If you want further history behind how women won the right to vote, I would search Alice Paul or Lucy Burns. Alice Paul was one of the prominent leaders of the women's movement during this time period and thereafter. Their journey was also made into a movie called Iron-jawed Angels. I recommend it. These women were hosed outside of courthouses, spat upon, cursed at, and even jailed for their fight for the right for their voice and their daughters' voices to be heard (the charge was that they were "obstructing traffic" while they were protesting). Once in jail, they were beaten and even forced feed (during a self-imposed hunger strike). The President at the time Woodrow Wilson wanted to have Alice Paul declared legally insane to which the doctor replied "courage in women is often mistaken for insanity." A quote that renders in my mind whenever I'm arguing passionately about a subject and then being asked if it's my time of the month.
So when I casted my ballot this past Saturday (I'm in one of those states with early voting) next to my husband, my mind wasn't just on the candidates, but on the women before me who fought so hard to let my voice be heard. I will make sure that if I do have daughters I will also tell them the history and the signficance of voting to them.
For those women who came before me....I say thank you.
Now get out there and vote!!!!!!!!!!!
