My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.
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My mother was a teacher.
My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor.
My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor.
My daughter became a teacher right out of college.
With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.
I basically applied to law school as a way of telling my parents that I wasn't going to medical school.
I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me to go into a profession that would be far more secure, so I went to medical school.
My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.
My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
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