“While sexism hurts women most intimately, it also damages men severely.”

As quoted in Fierce, Funny Feminists http://www.feministezine.com/feminist/funny/Fierce-Funny-Feminists.html, The Feminist eZine.

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American musician and feminist activist 1968

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