Mystery – June 30

“I work as hard as a man. I earn money like a man; I bear the burdens of Community like a man. I am robbed as a woman! I have no voice in anything or in saying how my money, which I have earned, shall be spent. The men of Illinois and the United States run their hands into my pockets, take out my hard-earned money, and say impertinently, ‘What are you going to do about it, you can’t help yourself.'”
– Ada Kepley, who on this date in 1870 became the first woman to graduate from an accredited law school in the USA.

Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist is upstaged by a person of a gender not typically associated with his/her success.

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