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" Public life has become so gladiatorial. Every day, another reputation bites the dust. "
Tina Brown
Life
Reputation
Every Day
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" Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have 'the responsibility gene.' No one has that gene more markedly than his wife. "
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