"Perhaps it is just a matter of time before some new Godiva will coax the current earls of Mercia and bring about the perfection to which Mark Twain alluded...; and usher in a greater era of understanding, compassion, and tolerance, "with liberty and justice for all," to accompany our scientific progress, and this outcome--Godot himself would no doubt deem worth waiting for."
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Ronald J. Meyers, "Waiting for Godiva," ch. 7 of Waiting for Godiva: A Gude for Thinking Women and Men to the Story of Love (2002), p. 343.
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Lady Godiva
Godiva (Old English: Godgifu; fl. 1040–1067), known as Lady Godiva, was an eleventh-century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to a legend dating back at least to the thirteenth century, rode naked—covered only in her long hair—through the streets of Coventry in order to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband, [[Leofric, Earl of Mercia|Leofric]
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