Quote#Wisdom
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism.…
Quote byMargaret Fuller · 1810–1850
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845).
English (original)
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.
— Margaret Fuller
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