Yesterday I posted a blog titled "Why Women Should Vote", and after receiving a few comments on it, I commented back to my readers. I decided to post that comment as another blog. Please take a moment to read both of these blogs. I believe that they are important and would love to hear your opinions as well.
Thank you for reading and have a wonderful day.
Nyana - Office Manager, Barbara Kehl Realty.
Thank you for commenting on this post, but more importantly thank you for reading it and hopefully sharing it. This was sent to me yesterday so I posted it here - adding the pictures for emphasis.
I must admit that when I read this I was, for lack of a better and more honestly raw term, convicted.
I know about women's suffrage and am amazed at the foolishness of those women out there who don't know what it is, yet I am guilty.
Guilty of not always "taking time" to go vote. Guilty of not alway taking pride in my right to vote.
As a teenage girl I couldn't wait to turn 18 so that I could vote. I still had the school lessons about the women who fought for my right to vote ringing in my ears. And to this day, I am still proud of my "civic duty" and I do vote, just not always with the idea that it is a priveledge that I have, and that not very long ago women fought and literally suffered for me to have this priveledge.
On numerous occassions, when our 2 political parties have been vying for the vote of this demographic or that minority, or this other group, I have made the statement, "I am a married, caucasian, mother in my thirties, why isn't anyone seeking my vote?"
Well, I can honestly say that whether or not, our political parties are seeking the vote of this married, caucasian, mother in her thirties, THEY ARE GOING TO GET IT!!! Some of them may not like it, but that's my right thanks to the women who have come before me! Thanks to women like Alice Paul, Dora Lewis and Lucy Burns, my one single voice WILL BE HEARD!
Thank you ladies, thank you. 
I vow to not forget what you fought and suffered for.
Nyana - Office Manager, Barbara Kehl Realty
Barbara Kehl Yuma Arizona Real Estate
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Nyana,
Thank you for these two posts. If you added one woman (or man) to the list of people who will vote, you have provided an invaluable service.
The women you are speaking about here are my heroes and they are the reason that when people talk about the "good old days" I ask, good for whom?
Times change and we forget what goes into making that change happen. When my husband and I bought our first home in 1972 the bank would only count 1/2 of my income when qualifying us for a mortgage. Can you imagine a bank telling a woman that today?
I always exercise my right and responsibility to vote!