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Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.

Margaret Fuller

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Margaret Fuller
Age: 40 †
Born: 1810
Born: May 23
Died: 1850
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
Critic
Essayist
Feminist
Journalist
Philosopher
Reporter
Translator
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sarah Margaret Fuller
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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