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I've finally figured out why soap operas are, and logically should be, so popular with generations of housebound women. They are the only place in our culture where grown-up men take seriously all the things that grown-up women have to deal with all day long.

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