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It was the Spice Girls who messed it all up. And obviously, the appropriating of the phrase girl power, which at that point overrode any notion of feminism, and which was a phrase that meant absolutely nothing apart from being friends with your girlfriends.

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Caitlin Moran
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: April 5
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Catherine Elizabeth Moran
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