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George Eliot Quotes: You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
         

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


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