Susan B., Grimke Sisters, Ida B. Wells, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth--I hear ya callin'!

It was early, and it was cold. We were a motley crew, but I dragged the boys along with me as I went to cast my vote in the VA Primaries today. Being the only one voting in the Democratic election the entire time I was at my polling place, I was afraid I was in the wrong place. But, all eyes on the lone Democrat, I strolled up and had my own 19th Amendment Moment.

In spite of my own house splitting the party vote, I was exited to be voting for a woman!! While I am confident the race/gender card would have also split the original suffragists votes, I feel like I am in a win/win situation.

"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman? ...
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.
Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say."

Sojourner Truth (1797-1883): Ain't I A Woman?Delivered 1851Women's Convention, Akron, Ohio