evidence: It’s never too late [...] The advice came from the English novelist George Eliot, who it turns out was actually the English novelist Mary Ann Evans. A woman who chose a male name so that her work might be taken more seriously. [...] I have a whole lot of work ahead of me if I ever want to get there but I wouldn’t be trying if I hadn’t been for that silly magnet and that quote. If Mary Ann Evans hadn’t spoken to me across time and space to tell me that I could still be something. That it wasn’t too late, it is never too late to be who might have been.