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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we we

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching. – Twyla Tharp

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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. – Twyla Tharp

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