Suffragettes in the Rotunda

These lovely ladies are Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton immortalized in stone. The trio were relegated to the basement for 70 years, until 1997, when Congress suddenly remembered that women had been granted the right to vote and moved the statue up into the daylight.



I wonder what they would think of a woman running for president. And I wonder if they would vote for her.

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