1869, WASHINGTON, DC

Dear Diary,

The United States changes so much every time I visit it. Thank goodness that Sacagawea girl helped Lewis, Clark, and me explore the Northwest, otherwise the country never would have expanded so much. Hopefully the good old USA will expand socially as much as it has geographically.

Today I attended the women’s suffrage convention with my pals Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and many other brave women. Our friendship started a few years ago when I saw them protesting a town hall meeting with signs that said Votes for Women. I wasn’t sure what this was all about, so I decided to get to the bottom of it.

Susan and Elizabeth took me out for dinner and explained everything they had been fighting for. I was shocked to learn women are seen as secondary to men in most places in the Otherworld, and in the United States they weren’t even allowed to vote. Isn’t that the most ridiculous thing you’ve ever heard of? Had I been aware of that sooner, I would have tried fixing it eons ago! I would have made my friend Benjamin Franklin put it into the Constitution—he was one of very few people in the 1700s who owed me money.

With so many incredible examples of intelligent, strong, and fearless female leadership (Queen Elizabeth, Catherine the Great, Queen Victoria, Maria Theresa—basically all my old friends!) you wouldn’t think women would have to fight this hard just to vote! The whole thing is ludicrous.