“Safety is not to be secured, then, by the wisest foresight. I shall embark more composedly in our merchant-ship, praying fervently, indeed, that it may not be my lot to lose my boy at sea, either by unsolaced illness, or amid the howling waves; or, if so, that Ossoli, Angelo, and I may go together, and that the anguish may be brief.”

— Margaret Fuller

Letter (21 April 1850).
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852)

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

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