Speaking of women...

 

"Many of us aren't the right size and shape for high fashion so the young people who clerk at the mall don't see us potential customers.

But at the polls, the politicians realize we remember when JFK broke the religion barrier, when Bobbie Kennedy was assassinated trying to do what was right for the country, when Martin Luther King was assassinated because he believed this country should be open to everyone. We are valued for those memories and our willingness to act on them.I am retired and have children in their 40's and 50's, but I still cruise, garden, read political books and work at the polls.

The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote, not the privilege of voting only if they like the chosen candidate. Those women went to jail, were beaten, disowned by their families and hounded because they believed women had minds and a right to express how the country was governed. If any women today chooses not to vote because Mrs. Clinton wasn't chosen, she is doing herself and her country a great dis-service, and negating everything the 19th amendment stood for.

Whatever you do, vote or keep your mouth shut and don't complain if things don't go you're way over the next four years. We've entered an era when women are gaining in business, education, politics, and almost every other area, but we mustn't let our gender become the reason (or excuse) for how we behave.

We have the opportunity to choose wisely and well in the running of this country and to be influential in the way politicians behave. If we grow in influence and just become one of the "boys", behaving just as they do, we denigrate everything my generation believed in and hoped for. We can force the Congress to do what we want if we band together and let them know we will remove them from office if they don't act responsibility, and we'll replace them with the person best for the job Male or female!!!"