And I think a lot of us, in my generation, we just sort of gave up at that point.

Why is that you think?

Why continue to fight for something that's dead?

Yeah, so we pretty much just gave up.

And then what did you do?

It kind of seemed like people put their energy into other causes.

Yeah, and there were so many problems.

I mean, you know, so many women are in the United States of America

are dying from domestic violence.

So things like the Violence Against Women Act became so important.

You know, and we put our energies into trying to fix the problems, you know,

without the benefit of the area.

And, you know, Civil Rights Act and those kind of things are something that can be used as a tool.

But, you know, at any point those can be taken away if it's not a constitutional right.

Those can be changed very easily by a Congress that gets controlled by people who want to go backwards, as I think we're seeing today.

You must remember that when the Constitution was written, that women were regarded as property.

The struggle for an equal rights amendment traces back to 1923 when feminist Alice Paul wrote the words that became ERA.

Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or bridged by the United States or any state on account of sex.

So as we want today, remember, forward together, backward, never.

If you could change one thing about the Constitution, what would it be?

I would add an equal rights amendment.

Can you understand?

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