“I have urged upon the sex self-subsistence in its two forms of self-reliance and self-impulse.”
- Date
- 1845
Meaning of “I have urged upon the sex self-subsistence in…”
Fuller argues for the ability to stand and act from within rather than living only through prescribed dependence, making self-reliance part of a wider claim to human development.
Where does it come from?
Woman in the Nineteenth Century; Fuller explicitly names self-subsistence, self-reliance, and self-impulse within her argument about women’s independence.