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NUMBER:55706
QUOTATION:A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
ATTRIBUTION:Gloria Steinem (b. 1934), U.S. feminist writer. Attributed.

Although the quote is generally attributed to Steinem, there is evidence that the words were current as a graffito in the 1970s, in the form, “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.”
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