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The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media's diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities.

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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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