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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
Ideas
Sick
Balloon
Need
Personality
Balloons
Whole
Leadership
Personalities
Needs
Media
Painted
System
Reduce
Face
Elected
Faces
Bloody
Diabolic
Upon
Notion
Inflated

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