“hypocritical laws that made a woman pay for a man’s crime. Why should women “receive the punishment due to the vices of so large a portion of the rest”?” — Megan Marshall Copy Share Image
“At thirty-six, Margaret believed her “mind and character” were already “too much formed” through “a liberal communion with the woful struggling crowd of fellow… — Megan Marshall Copy Share
“The expansion of their dyad to include the “young people” gave both Margaret and Waldo hope of more: “of being often & often shined… — Megan Marshall Copy Share
“A man’s idea of God corresponds to his ideal of himself. The nobler he is, the more exalted his God.” — Megan Marshall Copy Share
“Yet “Platonic affection” can only seem “sublimated and idealized to the more experienced.” It was a painful message for Margaret, an unmarried woman with… — Megan Marshall Copy Share
“And there was a fourth, “highest grade” of marriage, which included the best features of the others, “home sympathies” and “intellectual communion,” but added… — Megan Marshall Copy Share
“It was in Horace Greeley that Margaret recognized a “go-ahead, fearless adroitness” that was simply “American.” Waldo’s deprecatory assessment that Greeley was “no scholar,”… — Megan Marshall Copy Share
“It was not just her unusual intellect and outsized personality that made Margaret seem to Waldo more manly than feminine, but also her anomalous… — Megan Marshall Copy Share
“She had made the observation several years before to a startled Waldo Emerson that “women are Slaves.” Married women in particular—and that meant most… — Megan Marshall Copy Share
“Why do women love bad men? Margaret had asked the question herself, and answered it, in Woman in the Nineteenth Century. The belief that… — Megan Marshall Copy Share
“long as man “has the physical power, as well as the conventional” to treat a woman “like a play-thing or a slave,” she’d written… — Megan Marshall Copy Share
“But she worried about how the older students, who were required to leave the school at age twelve, would find work. Many of these… — Megan Marshall Copy Share
“Elizabeth Bishop wrote love poems, and poems about lovemaking, and one of the best poems ever written in English about the loss of love,… — Megan Marshall Copy Share
“am caught in such a net of ties here.” Again she almost revealed her secret: “if ever you know of my life here, I… — Megan Marshall Copy Share
“Woman, self-centred, would never be absorbed by any relation.” The “excessive devotion” that results when women live “so entirely for men,” when a woman… — Megan Marshall Copy Share
“from a very early age . . . that I was not born to the common womanly lot. I knew I should never find a being… — Megan Marshall Copy Share
