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Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged (or so we thought) from the outside in.
Gloria Steinem
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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Gloria Marie Steinem
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