Early Life and Career
Stone was born male in Jersey City, New Jersey. She has stated her original name "was Zelig Ben-Nausaan Cohen in Hebrew."
Stone has stated that she disliked formal education and preferred auditing classes with university professors whose work she admired. She has stated she worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories, then worked odd jobs to support her own research. She later graduated from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, receiving a B.A. in 1965.
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