Bold & Brave:Ten Heroes who Won Women the Right to Vote

When I was a little girl, after church on Sundays, I would visit my great-grandmother Mimi. She told me about a time when women like her left their homes and worked in factories, making equipment to help American soldiers win the war. Mimi taught me to be bold and to believe there was nothing I couldn’t do.
Mimi’s oldest daughter was my grandmother Polly. She liked to roller skate down the long marble hallways of the New York State Capitol, where she worked. When I was about ten, Grandma took me to a big room where ladies stuffed envelopes with letters urging people to vote. I thought, I want to be just like them someday! Grandma taught me to fight for what I believe in.