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I was brought up in a kind of, you know, very hippie, liberal family. And it was just always automatically assumed that men and women were equal and indeed superior.

Caitlin Moran

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