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Read & copy the quotation
“A dignified sense of self-dependence was given as all her portion, and she found it a sure anchor.”
- Date
- 1845
Meaning of “A dignified sense of self-dependence was given as…”
Fuller presents self-dependence as an anchor that makes relationships more secure rather than less human, because connection is no longer built entirely on dependence.
Where does it come from?
Woman in the Nineteenth Century, in Fuller’s account of “Miranda”; this is the narrator’s description of the illustrative figure rather than a standalone autobiographical maxim.
