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We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't have he and she. They don't have gendered pronouns. They don't have a word for nature, because we're not separate from nature.

Gloria Steinem

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