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We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible.

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Toledo
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Gloria Marie Steinem
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Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
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women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.
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I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare.
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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.
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