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Margaret Fuller: Woman in the Nineteenth Century

( 1845 ) Commentary by Barry Alfonso, Independent Scholar, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • “A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.” - Woman in the Nineteenth Century
  • “We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.” - Woman in the Nineteenth Century
  • “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
  • “I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not make an imperfect man her god, and thus sink to idolatry. 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.” - Woman in the Nineteenth Century
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