My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them. (Meghan O'Rourke)

My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.

Meghan O'Rourke

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