"Nevertheless, she persisted."
If you follow politics, or just aren't living under a rock, I'm sure you've seen the words " Nevertheless, she persisted " floating around in your Twitter feed somewhere. This is referencing Mitch McConnell keeping Elizabeth Warren from speaking during a debate over the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions. Warren isn't the first women to suffer through an attempt of forced silence. For example: " Nevertheless, she persisted. " Susan B. Anthony was raised in a Quaker family with deep roots in activism and social justice and became an advocate for women’s suffrage, women’s property rights and the abolition of slavery. " Nevertheless, she persisted. " Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to receive a medical degree from an American medical school, after overcoming several odds against her, including admittance to an all-male institution and financing medical school. " Nevertheless, she persisted. " Marie...