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My grandmother wanted to live long enough to vote for a woman president. I'll be satisfied if I live to see a woman go before the Supreme Court and hear the justices acknowledge, Gentlemen, she's human. She deserves the protection of our laws.

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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