"It is incredible to me that any woman should consider the fight for full equality won. It has just begun. There is hardly a field, economic or political, in which the natural and unaccustomed policy is not to ignore women…Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically."
"Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex."
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Source: The Women’s Deliberation Movement by Shelley Hendrix Reynolds, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2010.
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