Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens. Alone she goes to the gates of death to give life to every man that is born into the world. No one can share her fears, no one can mitigate her pangs; and if her sorrow is greater than she can bear, alone she passes beyond the gates into the vast unknown. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Margaret Fuller was an American essayist, journalist, historian, biographer, lecturer, social critic and poet. Her most famous essay was “The Great Lawsuit: Man versus Woman” and was written in 1845. In the essay she said that all life is a battle between man and woman. She says that man will never be able to share the burdens of woman because he is not meant to carry them.

A woman can die alone and give birth to a child without any help from man. But if they do the same thing together than they will be able to share their burdens and they will die together as one.

Source: Solitude Of Self

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