Leitha, within her early adulthood, struggled with the value of voting until after she was married. “It wasn’t until I was married during my early to middle adulthood that I actually voted” (Earnest). During Leitha’s early adulthood, she was restricted her power to vote, and had to rely on her husband’s decisions for the election for governmental powers. Furthermore, until the 1920’s when the nineteenth Amendment was passed, women were refrained from voting. “Women had to submit to laws when they had no voice in their formation. Women were also not allowed to vote” (Eisenberg 12). Women were restricted to mainly every right pertaining to freedom, but in the sense of formation, they were still enforced to submit to the law, even if they don’t have a voice in