Presents biographical profiles of significant women from throughout the history of the world, each with birth and death dates when known, a time line, quotation

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A thirty-year-old mother of two, Marion Luna Brem had just been given a death sentence: terminal cancer. She had no job. No health insurance. Her marriage would