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They [women] can use their abilities to support each other, even as they develop more effective and appropriate ways of dealing with power.... Women do not need to diminish other women[they] need the power to advance their own development, but they do not need the power to limit the development of others.

Jean Baker Miller

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Jean Baker Miller
Age: 78 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 29
Died: 2006
Died: July 29
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