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Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before

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Anita Hill
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 30
Attorney
Feminist
Human Rights Activist
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Lone Tree
Oklahoma
Anita Faye Hill
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For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977
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I work every day to live up to my mother's model. She was a very proud woman. And she really prepared me to go off into the world as a proud daughter.
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When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.
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I became the messenger who had to be killed
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calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.
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The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life
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Whether we call it a job or a career, work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.
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I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.
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But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities
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We've got to understand that all disenfranchised people have something in common...The pursuit of justice really is about equality for everyone.
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