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If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of human qualities is divided up so that two-thirds are masculine and one-third is feminine. Women are missing more of their human qualities, so you'll find us on the fore-front of trying to change this.

Gloria Steinem

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