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If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least as many as those who self-identify as Republicans.
Gloria Steinem
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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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I would say don't worry about what you should do, do whatever you can. And seek companions with shared values.
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Racism is not real, it's made up, it's cruel, it can be stopped.
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I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.
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Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
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