“A man’s idea of God corresponds to his ideal of himself. The nobler he is, the more exalted his God.” — Megan Marshall God Copy Share Image
“long as man “has the physical power, as well as the conventional” to treat a woman “like a play-thing or a slave,”… — Megan Marshall Friendship Copy Share Image
“But she worried about how the older students, who were required to leave the school at age twelve, would find work. Many… — Megan Marshall Education Copy Share Image
“She had made the observation several years before to a startled Waldo Emerson that “women are Slaves.” Married women in particular—and that… — Megan Marshall American women Copy Share Image
“once a woman is “able to stand alone”—as certainly the Tribune’s star, healed by Dr. Leger, could boast—“then she will not make… — Megan Marshall Imperfect man Copy Share Image
“Why do women love bad men? Margaret had asked the question herself, and answered it, in Woman in the Nineteenth Century. The… — Megan Marshall Woman In The Nineteenth Century Copy Share Image
“am caught in such a net of ties here.” Again she almost revealed her secret: “if ever you know of my life… — Megan Marshall Life Copy Share Image
“It was in Horace Greeley that Margaret recognized a “go-ahead, fearless adroitness” that was simply “American.” Waldo’s deprecatory assessment that Greeley was… — Megan Marshall Parenting Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth Bishop wrote love poems, and poems about lovemaking, and one of the best poems ever written in English about the loss… — Megan Marshall Loss of love Copy Share Image
“It was not just her unusual intellect and outsized personality that made Margaret seem to Waldo more manly than feminine, but also… — Megan Marshall Better man Copy Share Image
“Woman, self-centred, would never be absorbed by any relation.” The “excessive devotion” that results when women live “so entirely for men,” when… — Megan Marshall Marriage Copy Share Image
“Six years earlier, as she commenced her Conversation classes, Margaret had written in her journal about the discomfort that her verbal superiority… — Megan Marshall Communication Copy Share Image
“And there was a fourth, “highest grade” of marriage, which included the best features of the others, “home sympathies” and “intellectual communion,”… — Megan Marshall Marriage Copy Share Image
“indeed there are soul realities,” with “mein liebster” at a safe distance. “I have never had one at all like it, and… — Megan Marshall Poetry Copy Share Image
“Yet “Platonic affection” can only seem “sublimated and idealized to the more experienced.” It was a painful message for Margaret, an unmarried… — Megan Marshall Love Copy Share Image
“The expansion of their dyad to include the “young people” gave both Margaret and Waldo hope of more: “of being often &… — Megan Marshall Love Copy Share Image
“from a very early age . . . that I was not born to the common womanly lot. I knew I should never find… — Megan Marshall Husband and wife Copy Share Image
“hypocritical laws that made a woman pay for a man’s crime. Why should women “receive the punishment due to the vices of… — Megan Marshall Hypocritical Copy Share Image
“Observation is a great joy.” To write one’s observations, record such wonderings, the greatest joy of all.” — Megan Marshall Great joy Copy Share Image
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“She wanted to leave her noisy questing “self” behind in that pool—not by tumbling in, like Narcissus, but by rising up. The… — Megan Marshall Identity Copy Share Image
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“there are . . . in every age a few in whose lot the meaning of that age is concentrated”? “I feel that I… — 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… — Megan Marshall Prostitute Copy Share Image
“Here in Rome, “men live for something else beside money and systems, the voice of noble sentiment is understood.” She had found… — Megan Marshall Money Copy Share Image
“Marriage should be a temporary relation,” he wrote in his journal during the summer of his chaste tryst with Cary. “When each… — Megan Marshall Love Copy Share Image
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“Margaret described an oppressive awareness that “I have no real hold on life,—no real, permanent connection with any soul.” She felt disembodied,… — Megan Marshall Destiny Copy Share Image
“in our present state of society woman possesses not; she is under possession,” referring to laws that barred married women from owning… — Megan Marshall Father Copy Share Image
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![“But she worried about how the older students, who were required to leave the school at age twelve, would find work. Many of these “show[ed] by their unformed features and mechanical movements” the ill effects of having been “treated by wholesale”; they were not accorded the respect that engenders…” quote by Megan Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/362/megan-marshall-19595_respect_but-she-worried-about-how-the-older-stud_971998.jpg)
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