Margaret Fuller - Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)

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Those who are not intimately and permanently linked with others, are thrown upon themselves; and, if they do not there find peace and incessant life, there is none to flatter them that they are not very poor, and very mean.
A position which so constantly admonishes, may be of inestimable benefit. The person may gain, undistracted by other relationships, a closer communion with the one. Such a use is made of it by saints and sibyls.

Margaret Fuller

Woman, self-centred, would never be absorbed by any relation it would be only an experience to her as to man. It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to Woman is her whole existence; she also is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.

Margaret Fuller

For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it one way, they must another, or perish.

Margaret Fuller