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While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.

Source: A Colored Woman in a While World, 1940.
-- Mary Church Terrell, (Sep 23 1863-1954), US social reformer; She worked to improve women's rights and equality for blacks; first president of National Association of Colored Women, 1896-1904.

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