“Men disappoint me so, I disappoint myself so, yet courage, patience, shuffle the cards …”

— Margaret Fuller

Letter to Reverend William Henry Channing http://web.csustan.edu:80/english/reuben/pal/chap4/channing_henry.html (21 February 1841) quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1898) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 112.

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

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