“Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.”

Letter Seven (14 May 1904)
Source: Letters to a Young Poet (1934)

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Austrian poet and writer 1875–1926

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