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I have - often say to people that you really don't get to decide your own legacy. I mean, what you do is, you try to be your own authentic self. And then people decide how they're going to interpret that and what it means to them.

Anita Hill

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Anita Hill
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 30
Attorney
Feminist
Human Rights Activist
Lawyer
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Lone Tree
Oklahoma
Anita Faye Hill
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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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For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977
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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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The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination
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Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects.
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Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.
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