Intellectuals
Overthink
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The Tension Between Class and Intellectual Life
I have a slightly different experience, which is being raised in a pretty upper middle class environment. It was like my family really liked to read and there were dreams of being an intellectual, but that wasn't really actualized. My grandma, for instance, I think would have been an intellectual had she had access to higher education. But as a middle class woman, in the 1940s, it was just more of a standard thing to get married and have kids.
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