WOMEN.SISTERS.DAUGHTERS.MOTHERS.
Our right to vote as women is fairly new to this country. We were given our first vote in 1909. 1909. 99 years. Approx. 36,100 days-give or take a few. I use the term "given" loosely considering what our sisters had to do in order for us to have the right to stand beside our husbands at the polls. They were beaten. Jailed. Starved.
Sometimes we get too wrapped up in our own lives to remember what was sacrificed for us to be able to live the way we do today. We're accepted alongside male doctors and lawyers and other professions as colleagues. As equals.
I was raised to always remember where you came from. Never forget the people that gave up things in order for you to succeed.
Lets not forget our sisters of the Women's Suffrage Movement. Register to vote and then go out and do it!
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