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My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
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"My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety."
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My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety. — Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was a Scientist from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1836–1917).

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This quote is attributed to Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, a Scientist from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson lived from 1836 – 1917.
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