Last week, “Suffs” came to town. The show, a Tony award-winning musical depicting the fight for women’s suffrage in the United States, was very well done. I laughed and cried and found myself delighted by the songs and the story.

I also found myself feeling angry and sad. I felt angry and sad at that it took more than 70 years for the 19th Amendment to pass. Seventy-two, to be precise, from the first Seneca Falls convention in 1848 to ratification in 1920. I found myself feeling angry and sad at the numerous injustices faced by women advocating for the vote. From name-calling to arrests, beatings and force-feeding in jail, suffragists faced an uphill battle. In fact, until 1916, the number of active anti-suffragists outnumbered the suffragists — and many of those opposed to women having t

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