The conservatives’ accusation was quite accurate: to say that a woman’s voice should count equally with a man’s in public decisions was to assault centuries of theological teachings and social assumptions about the innate inferiority of women.

— Susan Jacoby Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (2004)

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