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Hopper, like other women during her era, consciously traded marriage and family for a career. [...] Close friends and family rescued her from alcoholism and dissuaded her from suicide. Rather than tarnishing her enduring reputation, Hopper's personal struggles highlight her achievements and remind us that even the best and brightest among us are sometimes overwhelmed by life's challenges. [...] Little did the two know at the time that their work over the next year not only would strongly assist the war effort but also would demonstrate to America's military, academic, and business elites the viability of large-scale automated computing machines, otherwise known as computers.
Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age; Kurt W. Beyer, The MIT Press, 2009.