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Jane Austen

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Jane Austen

Education

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Jane Austen is saying that men have dominated the opportunity to share their experiences because they have had better access to education and writing tools. She refuses to let written works, which are mostly created by men, be the only evidence of truth or knowledge.

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