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We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!
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