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"It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman." Matilda Gage (1879)
"All the Rights I Want" (PDF). The National Citizen and Ballot Box. Vol. 3, no. 10. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 30, 2012.
Rossiter (1993) writes of the "Matilda Effect" as what happens when brilliant women scientists are systematically devalued and erased.
Me (far left), on a panel as part of the University of Bamberg's Election Night in 2016, attempting to articulate to a room full of reasonable people why I thought the American people would elect Trump as president. One of the few times I was correct (people, and public opinion, not my strong suit). Given that my role was to represent the women and politics scholarship, I still cringe at the memory but am grateful for the brilliant minds I met who valued knowledge over status and made me appreciate art as a form of understanding.
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