Salute, and very very well said, Ms Patkotak!  I'm of about the same time frame and I think it's hard for much younger people to understand how great the change has been, or how huge it is that some one came from that time to where HC is today.  And it IS worth celebrating [even if one doesn't want to vote for her].

Also though, it puts me in mind of my grandmother - born to horse and carriage, trains, or feet for travel - telegraph a new thing, phones unheard of, radio emerging as a Big deal - no vote, no property rights, higher education so rare for women as to be almost out of reach.  I used to sit by her knee and listen to stories of her youth and early adulthood when visiting a town of any size was an adventure into an entirely alien world, and managing such a world as a lone woman took more courage than is easily imagined.