I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved. β¨ Margaret Fuller (2012). Woman in the Nineteenth Century, p.116, Courier Corporation
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- Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
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- How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little. β¨ Margaret Fuller (1852). Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, p.85
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