This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers, they lived only 90 years ago.

Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.

~Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917~

These women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed, nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote. And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of obstructing sidewalk traffic.

They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air. They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.

This unfolded when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote.

For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food, all of it colorless slop, was infested with worms.When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press.

So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year because-why, exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get to work? It's raining? Our vote doesn't matter?

It is jarring to realize that Woodrow Wilson and his cronies tried to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized. And it is inspiring to know the doctor refused. Alice Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy. The doctor admonished the men: “Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.”

We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so hard for by these very courageous women. Whether you vote democratic, republican or independent party - remember to vote.

I vote for you and I to live together.

I'll bring toothpaste/brushes.

You bring lip gloss.

Wow!! Never Heard That Before!!! Pretty Wild!! Thanks For Sharing That!!!

Only if you fail the test.

Hi Jeff. Thanks for taking the time to read it.

A lot of women in this world do great things that we never hear about.


and my favorite quote 'Well-behaved women rarely make history'

who said that??? Annie oakley

everyone should vote

everyone should vote

everyone should vote

everyone should vote

everyone should vote

everyone should vote

EVERYONE SHOULD VOTE

EVERYONE SHOULD VOTE

EVERYONE SHOULD VOTE

EVERYONE SHOULD VOTE

yes that means you

yes that means you

YES THAT MEANS YOU

YES THAT MEANS YOU

YOU YOU YOU YOU YOU

VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE

or deal with it

cause inaction is

enabling the evil that is happening

soon the country will be as nazi germany was

the laws are already in place to do so

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Thatcher_Ulrich

Women should vote if women want to maintain any liberty at all to make choices equal to their heart's desires. Whatever form of expression that may be, this way or that.

Be it for the preservation of family or professional opportunity, all women must remember that liberties require diligence to be protected.

As a matter of nurture, women stand to lose more than gained by the shedding of traditional roles women are afforded through a representative governance if women impune their right to express their traditional role as wife, mother, and homemaker. If such endeavors are villified and adjourned through willful consensus and vociferous contempt in the public discourses of political endeavor and social contracts abrogating and marginalizing feminine passions for family life, the role of men changes drastically with that and to that end, insufficient models exist for men to comprehend their own role with respect to women's rights and responsibilities.

Women have received a tremendous opportunity to voice their will in public discourse and with that opportunity comes a greater responsibility to preserve the best of traditional roles afforded women while exercising the privilege of influencing the role of men in their traditional role as protector and provider.

Many women are troubled by the seemingly politically incorrect traditional role of women in today's society.

Only women stand to shove other women to the sidelines in obscurity with a brick wall of advocacy that is completely stifling of traditional values of women in America that embrace traditional values, mores, and roles for women.


Men need women to recognize that women have much more at stake than just autonomy and impunity in public life.

Women need men to recognize that having it both ways doesn't mean that both ways are not correct.
But that women don't want it both ways, just the opportunity and liberty to choose between the two.


Somehow, that gets lost when women disgree with the politics of other women.

Men watch this in horror.

Show men that men are mistaken, once again , in their judgements about women.


yeah, yeah, I know. That's a man for you!