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During years of working for a living, I have experienced much of the legal and social discrimination reserved for women in this country, I have been refused service in public restaurants, ordered out of public gathering places and turned away from apartment rentals. All for the clearly stated, sole reason that I am a woman.

Gloria Steinem

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