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We know from many forms of suffering that what is important first is a witness - people want to know that someone else knows what's happening, that they're not alone - and someone who listens to what is needed and tries to help.
Gloria Steinem
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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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Economics anxiety may be even more common than the often identified 'math anxiety,' for unlike math, which has its personal uses, economics is seen as a mysterious set of forces manipulated from above.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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