Try saying that 5 times fast.
Actually, you've probably tried that already, so we'll skip that part.
The fun thing is that the 'She' mentioned in the tongue-twister might be a very specific and very real person. A person named Mary Anning, who was a female paleontologist in the early 1800's, and pioneered a chunk of the science of the time, including being part of the creation of the science of Geology.
She didn't have a formal education, since she was a woman in 17th century England, but that didn't stop her. She wandered the shores around her home-town, where there were several cliffs, and discovered fossils in the rocks there. She was one of the first to figure out that some of them were fossilized poop, known as coprolites. Because she was a woman and working class though, none of this got through the boy's club of the Paleontology Society in London. If she'd been rich, she might have been accepted to have this as a hobby--or could at least have paid a guy to take credit for her work, like Beatrix Potter did for her book about mushrooms. As it is, historians tend to go back and forth on whether she was respected or not for her brains--Several male scientists took credit for her discoveries, but she was also highly praised in personal journals and may have had a reputation. The problem is that her credit for things wasn't made public as much as the scientists that published her findings.
Despite being born poor, she was also born lucky because the area she once searched for fossils in is now known as the Jurassic Coast because of how many fossils are found there. She was able to find a wide variety of things that she cleaned up and sold, including being the first known Ichthyosaur, the first full skeleton of a plesiosaur, the first pterosaur outside of Germany, a ton of ammonites, belemnites, and a lot of others. Scientists came from far and wide to buy her fossils, study them, and take credit for them. The number of fossils she found led to a lot of interest in the subject, and museums struggled to keep up with the public interest. Some of the fossils that were put in museums are actually still in museums now.
She died at age 47, and was forgotten for a while, until someone brought her story back into the light, then everyone has rushed to learn more about the mother of geology and paleontology, an uneducated woman that showed up several heavily-educated men of the time, who spent her life learning things that many of the time thought was impossible or insane.
If nothing else, she's proof that women can do just as well as any man, so...maybe let one be in charge of the United States for a bit?
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