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

She and twenty ERA supporters were briefly jailed for chaining themselves to the gate of the Seattle Washington Temple in Bellevue Washington. Her husband divorced her soon after which Sonia Johnson blamed on "the mid-life crisis.

Sonia Johnson (born Sonia Ann Harris; February 27 1936) 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 Sonia Johnson was a member against the proposed amendment.