“That her hand may be given with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.”
- Date
- 1845
Meaning of “That her hand may be given with dignity,…”
A relationship entered from the ability to stand independently can preserve dignity more fully than one made necessary by the inability to exist outside it.
Where does it come from?
Woman in the Nineteenth Century; Fuller connects the dignity of freely giving oneself in relationship with the prior ability to stand independently.