"Sonia Johnson" is an American feminist activist and writer. She was an outspoken supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and in the late 1970s was publicly critical of the position of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), of which she was a member, against the proposed amendment. She eventually was excommunication/excommunicated from the church for her activities. She went on to publish several radical feminist books and become a popular feminist speaker.

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I liked the name of the amendment. I couldn't help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing something with a name as beautiful as the Equal Rights Amendment.

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What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

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As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.

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I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry, the.

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It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary . . .

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In our patriarchal world, we are al1 taught -- whether we like to think we are or not -- that God, being male, values maleness much more than he values femaleness . . . that in order to propitiate God, women must propitiate men.

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