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A Woman to Know: Lillian Wald

A Woman to Know: Lillian Wald

The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world. — Lillian Wald

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The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world. — Lillian Wald

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In 1889, Lillian arrived in New York City to attend the New York Hospital School of Nursing. She moved into a tiny room in a bare-bones apartment on the Lower East Side, but d…

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