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I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you’re not a feminist, then you’re a problem.

Jon Krakauer

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Jon Krakauer
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 12
Explorer
Journalist
Mountaineer
Writer
Brookline
Massachusetts
Brain
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