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The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.
Gloria Steinem
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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Toledo
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Gloria Marie Steinem
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We have to know before we can act.
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