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The care of children ..is infinitely better left to the best trained practitioners of both sexes who have chosen it as a vocation...[This] would further undermine family structure while contributing to the freedom of women.

Kate Millett

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Kate Millett
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 14
Died: 2017
Died: September 6
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St Paul
Minnesota
Katherine Murray Millett
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