Gloria Steinem
Writer and feminist organiser
I haven’t done it yet.
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Growing three brains.
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Raising my children, Tom and Libby, on my own.
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