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Anna Garlin Spencer

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

Anna Garlin Spencer

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Anna Garlin Spencer is saying that because very few women have reached the highest levels of genius in important fields, people have used this fact as an excuse to prevent other talented and ambitious women from pursuing intellectual success. This reasoning unfairly blocks women's opportunities based on past outcomes rather than their individual abilities.

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