Born to a struggling father, Pfieffer never knew what it was like to have a motherly figure. It was obvious that a male could not be mother as well as the father figure at the same time so her father, Alexander Reaux, raised her as a father and nothing more. As the years went on, she saw other girls wanting to be married to a prince and wanting to wear luxurious dresses and to also crave children—some of them wanting a large family—Pfieffer saw this as: “Primitive thoughts of the undying hunger of idiotic, delirious, and love-drunk women who refused to take care of themselves and instead relied on others to tend to them.”