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Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard

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Kate Millett
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 14
Died: 2017
Died: September 6
Feminist
Film Director
Painter
Photographer
Public Figure
Sculptor
Writer
St Paul
Minnesota
Katherine Murray Millett
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Divorce
Equal
Everybody
Morning
Women

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