We salute all the excellent woman of the world, past and present, who have contributed to history. Today, especially, I thank women in politics from all nations, who have added their voices towards addressing global issues affecting all of us.
In the US, we salute Abigail Adams, and our other First Ladies, and those who have run for office and been elected, including, but certainly not limited to, Libby Dole, Geraldine Ferraro, Shirley Chisolm, Barbara Jordan, Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Diane Feinstein, and around the world, Golda Meir, Angela Merkel, Indirha Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Glenda Jackson, and more.
News stories yesterday included one of former Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon considering a run for governor of New York, and we wish her well.
Women have been active in political and social issues since before this country was founded in The New World. Arguably, the first activist re American matters may have been the controversial but iconic Isabella of Spain, mother of Katharine of Aragon, who advocated for Columbus to sail on his voyages which lead him to North America. From there, women as diverse as Adams, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Betsy Ross, Dolley Madison, Martha Washington, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Edith Wilson, Helen Hunt Jackson, and many others have shaped American history, politics and culture, culminating in The Suffragettes who helped us get the vote finally.
Long may their memories live, and long may we prosper in any role we as women chose to take on.
In the spirit of Pym, they are all excellent women.
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