";...there will never be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers." - Susan B. Anthony, The Arena (1897).

When I first read the above quote from Susan B. Anthony my immediate response to myself was one of a twist. Women will never see equality in its purest form until they can grasp and feel comfortable with it mentally.

Looking to laws and lawmakers for our individual equality is a waste of time, equality and fairness is based on personal definitions. We, as women, spend to much time waiting for someone to rescue us from what we perceive as wrong, neglect, or unfairness.

I can't help but wonder what if Susan and her proteges made it their mission to transform the way women valued themselves would the modern woman know equality?

Unfortunately Susan B. Anthony and so many women leaders after her focused all their energies on passing laws and forcing the powers that be to give them their worth, when all along their worth was waiting within them to be recognized.

Now more than ever, women need to see that equality and fairness is not about laws but about us and how we perceive ourselves. If we don't value ourselves and know we have the power to shape our lives we will continue walking the same paths as before which lead us to feeling ignored, neglected, and misunderstood.

Are laws and lawmakers useless? No it's not my intention to makes such a statement because they have their purpose, but, to rely on them as your salvation is a mistake. People go into government with bright ideas on how they will ease the suffering by making laws that would end unfairness and biases of its citizens.

They soon discover that's not how government operates, it can't honor everyone's perceptions of what is fair and equal so a generalization in laws take place. Generalization in its own right can bring forth unfairness so the best thing for people is to look within themselves for answers.

Women of the future will be doing one of three things, living and suffering in silence, will be saying and doing as their foremothers, or they will have an intimate understanding of their own perceptions of what is fair and equal for them as individuals.