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Obama Responds To 'Pretty Impressive' 9-Year-Old Girl Who Wants Women On U.S. Currency

Obama Responds To 'Pretty Impressive' 9-Year-Old Girl Who Wants Women On U.S. Currency
Ashley Alman
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Politics Social Media Editor, HuffPost

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD - MARCH 23: U.S. President Barack Obama waves after he spoke during the SelectUSA Investment Summit March 23, 2015 in National Harbor, Maryland. The summit brought together investors from around the world to showcase the diversity of investment opportunities available in the U.S. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD - MARCH 23: U.S. President Barack Obama waves after he spoke during the SelectUSA Investment Summit March 23, 2015 in National Harbor, Maryland. The summit brought together investors from around the world to showcase the diversity of investment opportunities available in the U.S. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

A 9-year-old girl from Massachusetts just heard back from the president regarding her request to get more women on U.S. currency.

Sofia sent a letter to President Barack Obama last summer wanting "to know why there aren't many woman [sic] on the dollars/coins for the United States," according to a copy of the letter provided to Time Magazine.

"I think there should be more woman on a dollar/coin for the United States because if there were no woman there wouldn't be men," she wrote, adding that there are many women that deserve to be featured on U.S. currency because of the "important things" they've done.

Included on her list of suggestions were Rosa Parks, Betsy Ross, Abigail Adams and First Lady Michelle Obama.

Sofia told Time she "sort of forgot about" her letter when months passed without any response from the president. But in February, she received a letter from the White House.

"This is a belated note to thank you for writing to me with such a good idea last summer. The women you listed and drew make up an impressive group, and I must say you're pretty impressive too," the president wrote, according to a copy of the letter obtained by Time.

"I'll keep working to make sure you grow up in a country where women have the same opportunities as men, and I hope you'll stay involved in issues that matter to you," Obama wrote.

In the months since Sofia sent her letter to the White House, a nonprofit campaign called "Women on 20s" launched with the goal of getting the face of a woman on the $20 bill by the year 2020. The group mocked up images of $20 bills featuring Sojourner Truth, Eleanor Roosevelt and others -- including several that were on Sofia's list of suggestions.

View those images here.

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A young woman works as a warper on a power loom at the King Philip Mills, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1916.
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Women workers in a garment factory, Vermont, circa 1915.
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A group of women focus their attention on their work while employed by the Gibson Art Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, ca.1910s.
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Women operate the new stretching machine for surgical dressing at the Red Cross headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio, circa 1915. The machine, which was invented by Milton Griffith, can stretch 28 bolts of gauze in one day.
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A group of chorus girls at the annual charity reception and dance held by the Ladies' Auxiliary of St Vincent's Hospital at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, circa 1915. From left to right, Priscilla Mitchell, Dorothy Adrian, Temploe Joyner, Dorothy Kane, Dorothy Scully, Kathleen Kevin, Mary Lembeck, Helen McManus and Ruth Thompson.
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A woman working in a munitions factory during World War One, aiding the war effort whilst the men are away, USA, circa 1914-1918.
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A young woman works as a harness maker at the American Linen Company, in Fall River, MA, 1916.
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A thirteen-year-old girl (identified only as Mary) works with her aunt as they make flowers in a tenement room, New York, New York, 1911.
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View of women factory workers seated at their work stations while operating machines to polish lenses, during the early twentieth century.
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29th May 1919: Women rivet heaters and passers on ship construction work in the Navy Yard at Puget Sound, Seattle, Washington.
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Female American college students working on a farm, as replacements for men called up to the military in World War I, USA, May 1918.
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Women of the Sarah Caswell Angell chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, from Ann Arbor, Michigan, engage in war work activities to assist the Allied cause during World War I, 1918. During their sessions, they knit, make hospital garments, sew for French children, and make aviators' vests.
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A woman machine operator working with a cutting tool at an aircraft factory during World War 1.
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Working women aiding the war effort in World War One; Agnes Kelley, Blanche Chegnon, Marie Provencher, Nina Hosington and Mary Tully, all from Lowell, Massachusetts, 1917.
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A woman working in an American aircraft factory, 1917.
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'Farmerettes' help collect funds to supply milk for babies in France during World War I, circa 1918. From left to right, Mable Standley, Helen Gates, Mary Kelly, Anna Robinson, Lottie Vernon and Florence Martin.
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A member of the Women's Land Army of America plows a field, with a plow drawn by two horses, California, 1917.
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Women out picking cotton, USA, circa 1910.
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Students at Barnard College participate in a botany class at the college's greenhouse, ca 1915.
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