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The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
Activist
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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Male silence is not the same as listening
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I do not like to write - I like to have written.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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