“Don’t Look At Me, I Just Got Here Myself.”

Contemplating the immortal words of Kurt Vonnegut on the 101st anniversary of U.S. women’s suffrage and the fall of Afghanistan.

14-yr. old striker, Fola La Follette, and Rose Livingston. Glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection, 1913. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division. Photograph shows suffrage and labor activist Flora Dodge “Fola” La Follette (1882–1970), social reformer and missionary Rose Livingston, and a young striker during a garment strike in New York City in 1913. (photo: Photo by Library of Congress on Unsplash)

Only 101 short years ago today, women in the United States were granted the right to vote by the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Into every industry female entrepreneurs, inventors, mathematicians, engineers, teachers…