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Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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