Some of you may be familiar with a children's rhyme titled "The Lady With the Alligator Purse". What you may not realize is that the lady was Susan B. Anthony.
Here are the original lyrics to the rhyme/song...
Miss Lulu had a baby, she called him tiny Tim.
She put him in the bathtub, to see if he could swim.
He drank up all the water! He ate up all the soap!
He tried to swallow the bathtub, but it wouldn't go down his throat!!
Call for the doctor!
Call for the nurse!
Call for the lady with the alligator purse!
"Mumps!" said the doctor.
"Measles!" said the nurse.
"VOTE!" said the lady with the alligator purse!
75 years before Virginia Woolf called for a "Room of One's Own," Susan B. Anthony wrote "that there is no true freedom for woman without the possession of all her property rights." No freedom without a "purse of her own."
For those of you who don't know, I carry various metal lunchboxes. They are my purses. My freedom.
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| My favorite "purse of my own" |
I know it's local elections this year, but in many ways the local politicians are more important than the national ones. Make Susan, Mary, Elizabeth, Amelia, Sojourner, Mary Eliza, Lucretia, Lucy, Carrie, Alice, & Mathilda proud.
VOTE!
http://susanbanthonyhouse.org/index.php
http://mith.umd.edu/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/History/Vote/75-suffragists.html
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