"After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, 'I too am beautiful!' ... In you I met a real person. I need not give you any other praise."

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Source: Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley (1961). “The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion”

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Margaret Fuller

Transcendentalist, Writer

Margaret Fuller was a 19th-century American journalist and feminist, known for her influential work 'Woman in the Nineteenth Century' advocating for women's rights.

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