She and I

Miss Paul

Mrs Catt

It's been a while

Four years

I could just die after all this time

She and I in the same state

With nothing left to do but wait

This is the dress I've been planning to wear if we win

And you plan to put it on before results are in? Bold

I only took it out to iron it

So it appears you mean to burn that old suffragist flag if we lose?

No, we sew a new star on this flag for each state we beat

Tennessee would make it complete

And you've already sewn it on, I bet?

Not yet

Should I curse or cry after all this time?

She and I in the same state with nothing left to do but wait

I hope you realize if we lose, it will be due to the backing you cost us

By picketing the president during the war

I hope you realize if we win, it will be despite the power you lost us

By bowing to the president during the war

I made allies

I took action

Who cares who gets the credit or the blame?

What matters is the work gets done

Says the woman who has started writing suffrage memoirs

When we haven't even won

No, no, no she hasn't changed

She hasn't changed at all

She'll never know

Should I just go?

I know you think I'm this arrogant kid

But I've just always known it's my calling

To see this movement through

And I can't stop moving 'til I do

This girl

Carrie, you were this girl

When you first arrived as a fiery young leader-to-be

Raging at elders and raring to go

Then when Susan said you were off track

You played by her rules as you have ever since

But Alice never held back

So isn't it wild?

After all this time

I feel like a parent made to reprimand my child

But who is rather pleased to have her do

What I always wanted to

Rebel daughter and careful mother

Maybe she and I always needed each other

Alice, I, I

What?

I'll see you down at the State House then