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I don't want being a woman to be a factor, or being short to bea factor, or being Jewish to be a factor, or anything that makes you outside some design normthat I don't understand anyway. That makes me nervous.

Paula Scher

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Paula Scher
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 6
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