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The European problem is that it assumes that the minute a woman has a child, the mother identity subsumes the professional identity. Now she's the mother, above all, and we must give her all this time.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

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Anne-Marie Slaughter
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 27
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