"Not even the ashes of heroes have peace. Being great is synonymous with loneliness."
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Clotilde Betances Jaeger
Clotilde Betances Jaeger (born 1890) was a feminist writer and journalist of New York's Puerto Rican intellectual community during the mid-twentieth century.
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