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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

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Naomi Wolf
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
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San Francisco County
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Naomi R. Wolf
Naomi Rebekah Wolf
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