This election has been a lifetime in the making for some women in the U.S., born into a world where they didn’t have the right to vote and are now on the verge of seeing the country’s first woman president.
So as voters head to the polls to decide this historic election, some Twitter users are using the #DedicateYourVoteToAWoman hashtag to honor the women who came before them.
For my grandmother, who was born in a town she couldn't vote in and never did until her move up north. #dedicateyourvotetoawoman pic.twitter.com/XxFziyfQOr
— insomniacs anonymous (@mcgarrygirl78) November 8, 2016
My vote is 4 my Gma's. 1 born b4 suffrage who wouldve been so excited for a 🚺 prez & 1 who voted for Hillary at 89 #DedicateYourVoteToAWoman pic.twitter.com/uk7z5e1Btd
— Nice Nice Good Good (@bea_bischoff) November 8, 2016
People are using the hashtag to pay tribute to their mothers, grandmothers and other women who grew up in a remarkably different world.
my mom. took me to protest bush's inauguration, canvas for kerry/obama & always raise hell #DedicateYourVoteToAWoman pic.twitter.com/TKzqUzSgne
— maria yagoda (@mariayagoda) November 8, 2016
Back in the 80s my democrat grandma got a feminist shirt, my GOP grandpa forbid her to wear it in public. #DedicateYourVoteToAWoman
— J.Sandy Hutchins (@VonnegutTattoo) November 8, 2016
For my grandma who married at 17 and got her degree 35 years later. I'm wearing her pearls today. #DedicateYourVoteToAWoman
— Madisen Ray Petrosky (@Madz_LyR) November 8, 2016
I dedicate my vote to the Strong Latina Women who made my life possible, past, present and future. #DedicateYourVoteToAWoman pic.twitter.com/UYp9Q9p8oO
— Miguel G (@miguad98) November 8, 2016
Others dedicated their votes to their daughters and young women who will grow up in a country where a woman holds the highest office.
My vote is dedicated to voting rights hero Fannie Lou Hamer & my daughters, the future women closest to my heart #DedicateYourVoteToAWoman pic.twitter.com/0s96gvyZWh
— Megan Dowd Lambert (@MDowdLambert) November 8, 2016
My vote was for my 3 daughters & for my son. May they never truly understand the world we've sidestepped today #DedicateYourVoteToAWoman
— Molly (@canineasylum) November 8, 2016
My vote is for my niece. I'm so thankful she will grow up knowing girls can be literally anything they want to be. #DedicateYourVoteToAWoman pic.twitter.com/ACniiS8Ln4
— Judith DeFoor (@jhdefoor) November 8, 2016
Some tweets honored feminist heroes throughout history, or took note of the rights women struggled to win.
My vote is for my late grandmother, Shirley Chisholm, Ida B. Wells, and Zora Neale Hurston. My patron saints. #DedicateYourVoteToAWoman
— Ashley C. Ford (@iSmashFizzle) November 8, 2016
#dedicateyourvotetoawoman "If u hear the dogs, keep going. If u see the torches, keep going. If u want freedom keep going. " - Harriet T pic.twitter.com/plEQxyHo78
— Dr. Lisa Whittington (@LiLiWhittWhitt) November 8, 2016
My vote is for all the women who have died of back alley abortions and poor reproductive health care #DedicateYourVoteToAWoman
— ☄ (@playasuave) November 8, 2016
And a few women took a moment on Election Day to think about what their vote means for themselves.
My vote is for my grandmother, Ida B. Wells, & myself. I deserve this right & I'm glad to have it. #DedicateYourVoteToAWoman
— Keah Brown (@Keah_Maria) November 8, 2016
My vote is for ME. For #EqualPay, to protect my reproductive rights, and for the respect I have earned and deserve #DedicateYourVoteToAWoman
— Girls Really Rule. (@girlsreallyrule) November 8, 2016
And other Twitter users simply honored the important women in their lives, past and present.
For my grandma and nana. Both badass women ahead of their time. #DedicateYourVoteToAWoman pic.twitter.com/iT7kxalkZM
— Angela Cobb (@angelacobb) November 8, 2016
My vote is for my Polish grandmother who emigrated at the age of 16. She is the reason I'm an American. #DedicateYourVoteToAWoman
— Sandy Beall (@bluedgal) November 8, 2016
Dedicated to my Mimi who at 86yrs old still raises hell at her local political meetings #DedicateYourVoteToAWoman
— Katie P (@applezismypal) November 8, 2016
For my mom who died in March but who empowered us from the day we were born to take on the world as bad ass women. #dedicateyourvotetoawoman pic.twitter.com/sERoLG2R6e
— Mitsue (@Mitsue4Equality) November 8, 2016
To my mother who left everything and everyone in Egypt for me and my siblings to have a life that she never had #DedicateYourVoteToAWoman pic.twitter.com/ILvgCkt84p
— GO VOTE GODDAMN IT (@queennn94) November 8, 2016
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