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People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.
Kate Millett
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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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St Paul
Minnesota
Katherine Murray Millett
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