For Gay, it was also a moment of clarity that she should devote herself to working on making schools safer.
After Gaia was born, she devoted herself to the working mother's equation of less equals more, and began to morph into a national-treasure-in-waiting.
Moved by the land and people, she soon gave up reporting to devote herself to working with non-governmental organizations helping "Afghans rebuild their shattered but extraordinary country".
Instead, she devoted herself to charity work.
In the later decades of her life, she devoted herself to public works, installing pieces in California, Germany, and Israel.
She devoted herself to her humanitarian work, visiting famine-stricken villages in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, until shortly before her death of cancer in 1993.
The granddaughter of Anatole France's mistress Léontine Arman de Caillavet, Simone was highly educated, patient, and well-balanced, and she devoted herself to Maurois's work.
After retiring from the stage, she devoted herself to teaching and to staging works by Dolin, which he had bequeathed to her in his will (he died in 1983), namely his Pas de Quatre and Variations for Four and his production of Giselle.
Only in 1809, when she returned to Hampshire and settled in the cottage on the Chawton estate of her brother Edward, could she devote herself to her work again.
She was very charitable and devoted herself to volunteer work in hospitals, schools, churches and community clubs.
For more than 40 years, June devoted herself to the work she loved touching many lives as psychotherapist, teacher, mentor and friend.
