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Message:: [QUOTE="gsalexan, post: 2218226, member: 24274"]Meanwhile, back at the original topic … It's unfortunately that there are so few women on this forum, who I think probably take this topic more seriously than the men. I tend to agree with Pere that first ladies, despite being popular, probably would be little known if their husbands hadn't been presidents. And as much as I like the many depictions of Lady Liberty, it seems only fair that we finally put a real woman on our modern currency. I don't hear anyone clamoring to replace Andrew Jackson's portrait with the Minuteman statue. So ask yourself (men) -- which woman made the most influential contribution to this country? You probably haven't given it much thought. For my money (pun intended) I would say a pair of women: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. For 50 years they worked in tandem to shift the mindset of the nation and motivate women to demand the right to vote. Consider that during America's first 144 years fully half her citizens had no say in who governed them. What would the U.S. look like today if women still couldn't vote?  It's a shame that neither Anthony or Stanton lived to see women gain that right in 1920 (1920!). But they would get my vote as dual portraits on the $10 bill.[/QUOTE]