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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

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Rebecca West
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: December 21
Died: 1983
Died: March 15
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Suffragette
Writer
London
England
Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield
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Mother
Thing
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Trojans
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Motherhood

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