“My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.”
“I was a girl from Massapequa, New York. I grew up in Massapequa. I lived in a basement with one window.”
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