"My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.“


-Marilyn Hacker

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My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.

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