"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."
"To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality."
Source: Deeds Not Words by Bobbie Brinegar, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2016.
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Alice Paul
Suffragist, Activist
Alice Paul was a leading figure in the women's suffrage movement, known for her strategic activism and the introduction of the Equal Rights Amendment.
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