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It's endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually.

Gloria Steinem

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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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