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Margaret Fuller on Women

1810–1850 United States

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There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

The especial genius of Woman I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to Woman as freely as to Man.

What Woman needs is not as a woman to act or rule, but as a nature to grow, as an intellect to discern, as a soul to live freely and unimpeded.

Let us have one creative energy, one incessant revelation. Let it take what form it will, and let us not bind it by the past to man or woman, black or white.

There are who separate the eternal light
In forms of man and woman, day and night;
They cannot bear that God be essence quite.

Life Without and Life Within (1859)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Margaret Fuller (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.