It is not cowardice but courage to acknowledge the superior role chance plays in steering the course of life, and at the same time to take responsibi… - Maria Popova

Seeds are planted and come abloom generations, centuries, civilizations later, migrating across coteries and countries and continents. Meanwhile, people live and people die — in peace as war rages on, in poverty and disrepute as latent fame awaits, with much that never meets its more, in shipwrecked love.

Decrying the sublimation of women’s minds to domesticity, Fuller asserts that “a house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body” and admonishes that “human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion.

History is not what happened, but what survives the shipwrecks of judgment and chance.