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That her hand may be given with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.
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“That her hand may be given with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.”

Margaret Fuller

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Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Date
1845
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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.

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Woman in the Nineteenth Century; Fuller connects the dignity of freely giving oneself in relationship with the prior ability to stand independently.

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