One of the longest lines on America's Election Day wasn't to cast a ballot. It was to place an "I Voted" sticker, and get a celebratory photo taken, at Susan B. Anthony's grave in Rochester, New York. But one of the reasons Hillary Clinton lost the election, failing to realize the suffragettes' ultimate dream, is that she was too much like Anthony, and not enough like Anthony's more daring mentor and partner, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Anthony is the patron saint of women's suffrage. Young students learn of her 1872 arrest for casting a ballot (the straight Republican ticket) decades before it became legal for women to do so. She first appeared on a dollar coin in 1979. When President Barack Obama marked the 50th anniversary of the march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, he cited Anthony.
She deserves all the accolades she has received. But Stanton, Anthony's friend and mentor, deserves no less. And if Clinton had more of Stanton's fearlessness, she may well have won the race.