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Iron Jawed Angels is an awesome movie! I do highly recommend it if you haven't seen it. It's on my list of movies that every American (if not everyone in general) needs to see, along with Walker (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096409/).

I was watching Little Women earlier today too, and a scene reminded me of Iron Jawed Angels and this reminds me of it... Jo says to a group of young men who are discussing why or why not women should be allowed to vote, "I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good. They vote because they are male. And women should vote not because they are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country." LUV EET!!! What I do not love is that it took fighting for another 61 years after Louisa Mae Alcott published Little Women, culminating in the suffering of the women portrayed in Iron Jawed Angels, for women to gain suffrage in the US, not even 100 years ago yet.