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When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision.

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.
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