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great credit for the success of the movement. She'd been head of the New York City branch of the whole woman suffrage movement and had done a magnificent job. She threw all her energies and skill into it.

That was really a turning point in a great many things, certainly in the lives of women. They felt not only greatly elated, but released by this. To be sure Columbia Law School wouldn't admit them for a great many years, but from that point on they felt that they would get into Columbia Law School; that they would be admitted to medical colleges; that no job would be denied them if they insisted. It gave them a sense of solidarity.

Something that probably in not written in the books, but is true, is that the friendships that were formed among women who ware in that suffrage movement have been the most lasting and enduring friendships - solid, substantial, loyal - that I have ever seen anywhere. The women learned to like each other in that suffrage movement. In other words, they were comrades in the common cause. They played fair with each other, supported each other. They had to trust each other. It was like people in the underground - they had to trust each other. They did trust each other. The friendships that were made, even by people who only saw a little of each other, were very, very substantial and have endured to