"To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.“


-Lyndon B. Johnson

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To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

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