Elizabeth Cady Standon

History Chicks for the win. On the way in this morning i learned about __Elizabeth Cady Standon_____. In the later part of their podcast they were referencing the statue that was in the Capital Rotunda, funny thing -- i was at the capital rotunda and saw the statue. this is not my picture as when i was there they were working on the ceiling and i didn't get a good picture.

The monument -- fashioned by sculptress Adelaide Johnson out of a massive slab of marble quarried in Carrara, Italy -- was unveiled at the Capitol rotunda on Feb. 15, 1921, on the 101st anniversary of Anthony's birth. Anthony, Stanton and Mott were among the leaders of the women's right to vote movement -- a decades-long fight that culminated in victory on Aug. 26, 1920, when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified by Congress. Aside from the fact it's the only monument to women on display in the rotunda, there's something else that's unique about this work. It appears unfinished. Most notably, Johnson left a large piece of rough-hewn marble in the back of the statue. Her motive has been debated over the decades. Did she want her monument to represent the unfinished quest for women's equality? Was it representative of future, yet-to-be women's rights leaders, "a kind of an unknown soldier of the woman's movement?" Do you believe she left it unfinished on purpose? If not whom should go on the empty space