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

— Margaret Fuller , book Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
Context: We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to Woman as freely as to Man. Were this done, and a slight temporary fermentation allowed to subside, we should see crystallizations more pure and of more various beauty. We believe the divine energy would pervade nature to a degree unknown in the history of former ages, and that no discordant collision, but a ravishing harmony of the spheres, would ensue.
Yet, then and only then will mankind be ripe for this, when inward and outward freedom for Woman as much as for Man shall be acknowledged as a right, not yielded as a concession.

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American feminist, poet, author, and activist 1810–1850

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