"This was the first big case of its kind…These were women who you would think wouldn’t have anything to fear at work. These women were a classic anti-discrimination pro-type. They were Fulbright scholars, valedictorians; that’s why Newsweek wanted them in the first place. I couldn’t believe I had a case where you had intentional discrimination based on gender."
— Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, on why, as a young ACLU attorney, she chose to represent the Newsweek women who sued their company in 1970
