"I'm five-foot-something, sixty years old; I'm not much of a physical threat to anybody."

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Source: Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim. Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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Shirley Franklin

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Shirley Franklin is a prominent American politician, known for being Atlanta's first female mayor and advocating for social justice and community empowerment.

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