She felt utterly crushed and betrayed. Science had betrayed her. She had always believed deep down that science would not judge her, even if people did. Her father's books had opened to her touch easily enough. His journals had not flinched from her all too female gaze. But it seemed that science had weighed her, labelled her and found her wanting. Science had decreed that she could not be clever… and that if by some miracle she was clever, it meant that there was something terribly wrong with her. . Frances Hardinge
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The quote above was written by Marilynne Robinson, a writer of fiction and poetry. It is a short story called "Hannah Coulter." In this story a young girl has a dream in which she believes she will be judged for her cleverness. She believes that if she is clever, people will consider her a freak and if she is not, they will consider her dull.

Source: The Lie Tree

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