Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean t…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being. ✨ Letters to a Young Poet. Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter Seven (May 14, 1904), 1929.
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