...and Lucy Burns.

And all the members of the National Woman's Party (suffragists) whose hard work, determination and courage brought about the ratification of the 19th amendment and gave women the right to vote in this country.

These women endured harsh weather conditions when they picketed the White House, public ridicule and condemnation, imprisonment, horrible treatment at the hands of prison guards, including Alice Paul being force-fed in the cruelest manner while she was waging a hunger strike, and personal lives and loves put on hold as they held steadfast to their cause.

A couple of weeks ago, I declared that I wasn't going to vote this election - the first time in my life I wasn't going to vote, because I was unhappy with the prospective candidates and stories going around, fraught with the usual political BS...but I realized these women endured so much so that their daughters and future generations could have a voice, and help choose this country's leaders, and its most important one, The President.

And I ever so casually said 'no, I'm not going to vote this time'.

And so I apologize to them, and will definitley be following the progress of the candidates and cast my ballot on November 4.





Thank you.