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George Eliot: You may try...

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You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

Source: Deronda's mother, in Daniel Deronda, bk. 7, ch. 51 (1874 --76).
-- George Eliot, (Nov 22 1819-1880), English novelist; Mary Ann Evans was the foremost woman novelist of her time, e.g., Silas Marner, 1861.


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