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Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

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Kate Millett
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 14
Died: 2017
Died: September 6
Feminist
Film Director
Painter
Photographer
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Sculptor
Writer
St Paul
Minnesota
Katherine Murray Millett
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