"I do not believe that the few women who have achieved greatness in creative work are the exception, but I think that life has been hard on women. It has not given them opportunity, it has not made them convincing. A woman has not been considered a working force in the world, and the work that her sex and conditions impose upon her has not been so adjusted as to give her a little fuller scope for the development of her best self. She has been handicapped and only the few through force of circumstances or inherent strength have been able to get the better of that handicap. There is no sex and art. Genius is an independent quality. The woman of the future with her broader outlook, her greater opportunities will go far, I believe, in creative work of every description."
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Women born in the 19th centuryComposers from FrancePianists from FranceWomen from FranceWomen pianists
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Interview with the Washington Post. Quoted in "Cecile Chaminade: A Bio-Bibliography" (1988) by Marcia J. Citron. See The life and music of Cecile Chaminade: Genius has no gender, WETA (March 21, 2023)
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