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Stephen Lewis

"Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women."

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"Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women."

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"Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"

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"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."

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"I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives."

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"I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman."

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"One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic."
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"I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel."
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