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She was attached to several men after her divorce, counting one of them as the reason she enlisted in the Red Cross, as he had already gone to France as a soldier.

However, she said she did not believe in extramarital sex and would not have dishonored her father by being promiscuous.

She told Klinkenberg in 1992, frankly, that she had not had sex since her divorce, saying " I wasn't a wild woman ".

However, she was fond of saying she used the emotion and energy instead on her work.

" People don't seem to realize that the energy that goes into sex, all the emotion that surrounds it, can be well employed in other ways ", she wrote in her autobiography.