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Women in the postfeminist era, while supposedly strong and commanding and equal to men in every sense, looked weaker and smaller than ever before.
Portia de Rossi
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Portia de Rossi
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: January 31
Actress
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Horsham
Victoria
Australia
Portia Lee James DeGeneres
Amanda Lee Rogers
Portia DeGeneres
Portia Di Rossi
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True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else it's about being better than you used to be.
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I thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didn’t have to keep striving and achieving because I had done that already, and it would add up to being enough.
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I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.
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I highly recommend inviting the worst-case scenario into your life.
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I was very sexual from a very young age.
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