Early Life
Whelan was born in New York City to attorney Stephen T. Whelan and Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan, an author and public health specialist.
At eight years old, Whelan was the moderator for "No Kidding", a nationally syndicated health talk show for kids, by kids, produced by the American Council on Science and Health.
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“Many a woman shudders ... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians ...”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)
“... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)