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People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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