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In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school.
Alice Mattison
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Alice Mattison
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 18
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Somehow we have to detach from feeling as though money is a quick and easy standard by which we can gauge how well we're doing.
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