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In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school.

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Alice Mattison
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 18
Novelist
New York City
New York
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School
Women
Many
Cultures
Sometimes
Literally
Going
Kept
Learning
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