A great deal has been written about that hostility at Waterloo, as though a country that refuses to pass something as simple as the Equal Rights Amen… - Grace Paley

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A great deal has been written about that hostility at Waterloo, as though a country that refuses to pass something as simple as the Equal Rights Amendment would not have pockets of vicious misogyny, as though a nation with tens of thousands of nuclear bombs, Army bases, weapons factories in the midst of unemployment would not be able to raise a furious patriarchal horde.