“Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”
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Margaret Fuller book Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
Context: 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.
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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 10.
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