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This amendment [the Equal Rights Amendment], if passed, would be like a beacon which should awaken nine sleeping Rip Van Winkles to the fact that the twentieth century is passing into history.

Source: In American Political Women, by Esther Stineman, 1980.
-- Martha Wright Griffiths, (Jan 29 1912-2003), US politician; She was a Congresswoman from Michigan 1955-1975, best known for adding sex discrimination as a prohibited act in the 1962 Civil Rights Act.

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