If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself, 'You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation. . . why should you be frightened'
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. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
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