How Did Your Mother Shape You?

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You've written about how it was a rarity where you were growing up for any female to go to college, and that your mother was really a visionary in her insistence that you all do that. How else did she influence you? I know that she was very, very important in terms of helping you become who you are, absolutely. And i don't think that i knew at the time that she was shaping ut imen. One of the things that my mother always said was she insisted that we think about everything that we were doing,.

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