We have had it easier than younger people adjusting to this dreadful election.  I'm old enough to remember '68 when Nixon was elected.  And Reagan, and the Bushes.  We lived through that and we'll make it through this, remembering that we're still stronger together.  Ernestine Rose provides an inspiring example: she fought all her adult life for women's rights, abolition of slavery, and free thought.  She lived to see the nominal end of slavery and some gains for women, but not the vote.  She never gave up.

For most of her 82 years, Ernestine Rose fought for women’s rights – especially the vote.  She never lived to see it, but she also never gave up.  “'Agitate! agitate!' Ought to be the motto of every reformer.  Agitation is the opposite of stagnation – the one is life, the other death,” she proclaimed.  She spoke out and organized, petitioned and wrote.  Her efforts helped bring about future gains and can inspire us to forge ahead now.

Ernestine Rose's older friend and ally, Lucretia Mott, said of the women's rights movement:  "Any great change must expect opposition because it strikes at the very foundation of privilege,:"  One good thing that I think has come out of this dreadful campaign is that women have begun to discuss the persistent sexual harassment in their lives. La lutta continua!