“It's amazing how even with the language barrier women still communicate. You talk to women around the world and you find out we all have the same problems.”

— Beverly White

As quoted in Tooele Transcript-Bulletin https://archive.ph/rZrYW (October 12, 1995)
State in regards to the World Conference on Women, 1995

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American politician 1928–2021

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