We doubt not the destiny of our country — that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world … - Margaret Fuller

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

We have waited here long in the dust; we are tired and hungry; but the triumphal procession must appear at last.

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But, in fact, they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. History jeers at the attempts of physiologists to bind great original laws by the forms which flow from them. They make a rule; they say from observation what can and cannot be. In vain! Nature provides exceptions to every rule. She sends women to battle, and sets Hercules spinning; she enables women to bear immense burdens, cold, and frost; she enables the man, who feels maternal love, to nourish his infant like a mother.