On the fifth day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen-hundred and seventy-two, Susan Brownell Anthony gave both fingers to The Man and voted in the presidential election even though she knew it was against the law. When the officer of the law arrived at her house to arrest her, he gave her the option of turning herself in so as to avoid arrest and the subsequent spectacle it would cause; she refused. She then refused to pay her own bond, preferring instead to remain in jail, believing she had done no wrong. Her attorney paid her bail, the jerk of a judge refused to grant her a jury trial and judged her guilty himself, and a pro-life feminist Quaker chick from Massachusetts became a legend. When asked if women would ever be allowed to vote, she without hesitation said that though it would not be in her lifetime, it was inevitable.

She was right. It would take decades and the determination and hard work of suffragettes like Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, as well as countless instances of oppression and physical violence, but it was done. Equality for women was achieved in the obtaining of that most sacred of Constitutional rights, The Vote. On the 18th of August in 1920, women were given their voice.

I dare anyone to try to shut us up.