Lives are laid bare in obituaries, making those back pages in newspapers compelling reading.
NEVER mind. At least she doesn’t look clever.” This is the way a family friend consoled British philosopher Phillipa Foot’s parents when the young woman got into Oxford during the World War II, when women were obviously revered more for their beauty than their brains.
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