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Imagine you're standing in the hottest room in your house, the salarium. It must be a hundred degrees in here.

You're sweating through the collar of your jersey knit dress.

It's not just the sunlight streaming through the floor ceiling windows.

It's the hot television lights all pointed at the couch where in just a few minutes

you're going to sit down to give the biggest interview of your life.

As the burly man in the television crew run cables all over your furniture,

you glance at your reflection in the mirror over the mantelpiece.

Do you look as terrified as you feel as your hair at all still in place?

Your posture is perfect as always,

but when you try flashing a smile, it looks forced.

Your assistant stands at your side,

running through your talking points one last time.

Now remember, if they ask about abortion, you're only for it in rare or extreme cases.

Not abortion on demand. I remember.

And if they ask you what it means to be a liberated woman, I've got it!

You take a deep breath and shake out your left arm, the one that hurts most of the time.

The pain isn't too bad today. Your arms not the problem.

Your conscience is.

Over the last few years you've become a leading figure in the women's movement.

And your fellow feminists are counting on you to speak forcefully

in favor of gender equality, abortion rights, and a host of other issues.

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