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Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.

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Cynthia Heimel
Age: 70 †
Born: 1947
Born: July 13
Died: 2018
Died: February 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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Women
Patronized
Females
Pedestal
Simultaneously
Ladies
Female

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