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Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention.

Caitlin Flanagan

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Caitlin Flanagan
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 1
Journalist
Writer
Partly
Invention
Becoming
Woman
Nature
Women
Self

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