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It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit, so I would say feminism has been successful and we have a huge distance to go, huge.
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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