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Elizabeth Inchbald

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Biography

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I'll Tell You What

1785

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn't have what it takes’; They will say, "Women don't have what it takes."

-Clare Luce Booth