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And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Source: Deronda's mother on society's expectations of women, in Daniel Deronda, bk. 7, ch. 51, 1876.
-- 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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