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- <text id=91TT2797>
- <title>
- Dec. 16, 1991: Open Book
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Dec. 16, 1991 The Smile of Freedom
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 63
- Open Book
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By Alexander Tresniowski/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> Patricia Ireland doesn't like labels, but there's one she
- can't escape: controversial. Last week the longtime women's
- rights activist, who is about to become president of the
- National Organization for Women, explained that in addition to
- her husband of 25 years, she has a female companion "who is also
- very important in my life." But the 46-year-old lawyer refused
- to call herself a lesbian or bisexual. "I've never hidden how
- I've lived my life," Ireland told the Advocate, the
- gay-and-lesbian biweekly. "What I don't like is the idea that
- people try to categorize other people by their sexuality."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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