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So, the other day my husband told me about a motivational speaker he listened to on campus. He mentioned that the speaker posted an inspirational quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson up on the projector screen, and then read:

There is a time in every woman's education when she arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that she must take herself for better, for worse, as her portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to her but through her toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to her to till. The power which resides in her is new in nature, and none but she knows what that is which she can do, nor does she know until she has tried.

After which, he immediately noticed that while the original quote on the screen had male pronouns, the speaker used female pronouns while reading it. The audience, he noticed, was not primarily made up of women. To make this adjustment to the quote, he thought, seemed weird and unnecessiary, and perhaps even insulting, as it specifically seemed to focus on the need for women to rise to their potential.