Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half…

Margaret Fuller
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Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. ✨ Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman, p.70
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