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It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy

Margaret Fuller

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Margaret Fuller
Age: 40 †
Born: 1810
Born: May 23
Died: 1850
Died: July 19
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Feminist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sarah Margaret Fuller
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