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The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience by Hillary Rodham Clinton

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By now it’s a familiar idea, beautifully echoed by Sally Ride: “You can’t be what you can’t see.”

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“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

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