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Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted.

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Sara Sheridan
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 7
Novelist
Writer
Edinburgh
Scotland
Privilege
Standing
Responsibility
Rights
Victorian
Comes
Counted
Dream
Privileges
Women
Sisters
Today
Equality

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