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I would say that each of us has only one thing to gain from the feminist movement: Our whole humanity. Because gender has wrongly told us that some things are masculine and some things are feminine... which is bullshit.

Gloria Steinem

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