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the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in order to survive, women have had to know men - yet the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.

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