Margaret Fuller
American transcendentalist writer (1810 to 1850); philosopher, journalist and literary critic; author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845).
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What women need is not to act or rule as women, but to grow, discern and live freely and unimpeded
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, to unfold such powers as were given her when we left our common home.
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What women need is not to act or rule as women, but to grow, discern and live freely and unimpeded
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, to unfold such powers as were given her when we left our common home.
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845; 1855 edition) Said 15 Nov 1844
Men and women constantly pass into one another; no man is wholly masculine and no woman purely feminine
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But, in fact, they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845; 1855 edition) Said 15 Nov 1844
At present, women are the best helpers of one another
I believe that, at present, women are the best helpers of one another.
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845; 1855 edition) Said 15 Nov 1844
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Men should remove arbitrary barriers to women; women must show their own dignity to teach men how to help
We only ask of men to remove arbitrary barriers. Some would like to do more. But I believe it needs that Woman show herself in her native dignity, to teach them how to aid her; their minds are so encumbered by tradition.
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845; 1855 edition) Said 15 Nov 1844
Women may fill any office, even that of sea captain
But if you ask me what offices they may fill, I reply—any. I do not care what case you put; let them be sea-captains, if you will.
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845; 1855 edition) Said 15 Nov 1844
Women need, at this time, a much wider range of occupations to rouse their latent powers
I think women need, especially at this juncture, a much greater range of occupation than they have, to rouse their latent powers.
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845; 1855 edition) Said 15 Nov 1844
Because women do not hold property on equal terms with men, their cause may well be pleaded by a party like the anti-slavery one
It may well be an Anti-Slavery party that pleads for Woman, if we consider merely that she does not hold property on equal terms with men; so that, if a husband dies without making a will, the wife, instead of taking at once his place as head of the family, inherits only a part of his fortune, often brought him by herself, as if she were a child, or ward only, not an equal partner.
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845; 1855 edition) Said 15 Nov 1844
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