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American psychologist and writer

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Elizabeth Murray is an American memoirist and inspirational speaker who is notable for having been accepted by Harvard University despite being homeless in her high school years. Her life story was chronicled in Lifetime's television film Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003).

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Liz Murray
said · Oct 17, 2021
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The problem may be huge, but your job is not to fix the entire problem. It’s to do what you can with what you have.

Liz Murray to speak at Mission Services of London banquet in November globalnews (October 17, 2021)

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Liz Murray
said · Apr 16, 2018
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The fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it’s the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.

BEYOUROWNICON: LIZ MURRAY American Sunglass (April 16, 2018)

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Liz Murray
said · Sep 26, 2010
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I was one of those people on the streets you walk away from.

Liz Murray: 'My parents were desperate drug addicts. I'm a Harvard graduate' The Guardian (26 September 2010)

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Elizabeth Murray is an American memoirist and inspirational speaker who is notable for having been accepted by Harvard University despite being homeless in her high school years. Her life story was chronicled in Lifetime's television film Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003). Murray's memoir Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard, published in 2010 is a New York Times Bestseller.

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Born 1980 · age 46
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