"That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable."

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I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because they just take up so much space. I'm not under any illusions that I could have been where I am now in literary terms if I had been heterosexual. I really believe I would not be.

— Jeanette Winterson