Robin Morgan, women’s rights activist, speaking on the women’s movement, said some awesome things to spark thought in the mind of any responsible woman of the 21st Century. In a PBS program, she mused about the triumphs of the women’s movement:

“…watching the progress of the women’s movement from 1968 is an amazement. We have a woman speaker of the house, a woman running for president, women heads of state in many countries all over the world. Some of these things have become so absorbed into the normalcy of the culture that we don’t celebrate them anymore….”

But we should celebrate and wear our responsibility proudly as the coming presidential election heats up in the next weeks and months.

Grandmothers, tell your daughters and grandmothers how important it is to learn the facts and vote our consciences. Remind them that your mother, or your grandmother, anyway,probably didn’t have had the right to vote. Tell them how it was to witness women grow and earn our places. Pat Buchanan reminds us,

“The 1960s were the first years of the cultural revolution and cultural wars of America – our disagreements were so deeply profound we may never recover….”

But we are recovering and growing stronger.

Mothers, tell your daughters and your friends to learn and then to vote.

Daughters, tell your friends and discipline yourself to gather information and form responsible opinions, then vote if you can, or teach others if you can’t vote yet.

Arlo Guthrie summed it up. “I’m still hopeful,” he said.

This one is terribly important to us all. We gotta raise a little hell or we might end up there for four more years!