Elizabeth Blackwell
We’re clearly soldiers in petticoats
And dauntless crusaders for woman’s votes
Though we adore men individually
We agree that as a group they’re rather stupid!
Cast off the shackles of yesterday!
Shoulder to shoulder into the fray!
Our daughters’ daughters will adore us
And they’ll sign in grateful chorus
“Well done, Sister Suffragette!”
From Kensington to Billingsgate
One hears the restless cries!
From ev’ry corner of the land:
“Womankind, arise!”
Political equality and equal rights with men!
Take heart! For Missus Pankhurst has been clapped in irons again!
No more the meek and mild subservients we!
We’re fighting for our rights, militantly!
Never you fear!
So, cast off the shackles of yesterday!
Shoulder to shoulder into the fray!
Our daughters’ daughters will adore us
And they’ll sign in grateful chorus
“Well done! Well done!
Well done Sister Suffragette!”
Blackwell was the first American woman to graduate from medical school (Geneva College). There are many rumors about how she was admitted, but the story that was told in my college was that the admission decision was left up to the students, none of whom wanted her blackballed and each threw her their vote, thinking that would be the only one she got. The joke was on them when she was accepted unanimously and went on to graduate first in her class (although she was never allowed to practice medicine in the United States.) Blackwell graduated from Geneva College, a now defuct college on the shores of Seneca Lake in Geneva, New York (now home to Hobart and William Smith College).
I love this story and think of it every election season as a reminder of just how powerful one person’s vote can be.
So vote early and often if you can (just kidding) and when you do, think of the women before you who fought for generations to win you the right to pull that lever for the candidate of your - not your husband’s or your father’s - chosing. Thank you Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. I do adore you!
2. November, 2004 at 09:40
Well put!
-Wendy
3. November, 2004 at 06:50
One of my favorite quotes from EC Stanton writing about her successors says, “We are only the stone that started the ripple, but they are the ripple that is spreading and will eventually cover the pond.”
Great post.
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LOVE that Mary Poppins song!
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