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And when they came to a vote, it actually came down to one vote in the Tennessee State Legislature by a guy named Harry Byrne.

And on the morning that he is walking to the state legislature, I'm certain about how he is going to vote.

He gets a letter from his mother, and that letter from Fanburn, who is my heroine, says, be a good boy and vote for soft friction.

As he later says, I always thought it was a good thing to do what your mother said.

The irony of that, that in order to get the right to vote, which most men didn't want them to have, they had to get men to vote for them and to vote for the right to vote. It's kind of nuts.

That's Lin-Sher and Ellen Goodman. It's been exactly a hundred years since women officially won the right to vote.

And now that a century has passed, it's possible that the story of the heroic women who won that right might be forgotten.

Lin-Sher and Ellen Goodman are two celebrated journalists who are determined not to let that happen.

This is such a treat to have you on today. I love the project that you work on.

Here you get the tool of the country's best communicators working on a podcast about women's suffrage.

And it's called She votes, is that right?

With an exclamation point.

I'm just going to say, I hope there's an exclamation point.

Definitely not a question mark.

My voice gave it a little question. I wanted to make sure I got it right.

So tell me about this. How are you handling the whole issue of women's right to vote?

Well, we started interestingly enough. One of the first things Lin and I talked about was the realization that our own mothers were born before women had the right to vote.

Wow. That is a striking realization.

I'm sure it's true for you too, Ellen.

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