“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.” – Abigail Adams

Oddly, it’s become a little known fact that those responsible for securing these rights for women were the Republican party, not the Democrats.  Indeed, the Republicans had to force Democratic president Woodrow Wilson to grant these rights that were and are as God given as the rights of their male counterparts.