Well mighty Abigale this is not over.' Anastasia thought at her roommate's door as she picked up a tea cup that had been obliterated and reconstituted in a span of a few seconds. 'Indeed, you may very well be the key to my success. Not the Abigale you pretend to be, but the true Abigale. That Abigale is the strongest of the Guardian Alva. It may take me awhile but I will be good enough to challenge you. I will discover all your secrets; take away every mental hiding place you have. When next we spar, I will pull out that power you keep hidden. And when I defeat you at your strongest, I will know that I have the power to never fail again.'

New York City’s elite women who turned a feminist cause into a fashionable revolution In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names—Astor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney and the like—carried enormous public value. These women were the media darlings of their day because of the extravagance of their costume balls and the opulence of the French couture clothes, and they leveraged their social celebrity for political power, turning women's right to vote into a fashionable cause. Although they were dismissed by critics as bored socialites “trying on suffrage as they might the latest couture designs from Paris,” these gilded suffragists were at the epicenter of the great reforms known collectively as the Progressive Era. From championing education for women, to pursuing careers, and advocating for the end of marriage, these women were engaged with the swirl of change that swept through the streets of New York City. Johanna Neuman restores these women to their rightful place in the story of women’s suffrage. Understanding the need for popular approval for any social change, these socialites used their wealth, power, social connections and style to excite mainstream interest and to diffuse resistance to the cause. In the end, as Neuman says, when change was in the air, these women helped push women’s suffrage over the finish line.