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Quote #44403

I myself am more divine than any I see.

Margaret Fuller

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Taken at face value, the line is a deliberately provocative assertion of inner divinity—an insistence that spiritual authority and worth are not conferred by institutions, social rank, or the opinions of others. In Fuller’s intellectual milieu (Transcendentalism and early feminist argument), such a claim would function less as mere arrogance than as a challenge to inherited hierarchies: if the divine is immanent in the self, then women and other marginalized persons can claim moral and spiritual autonomy. The sentence also reads as a test of self-reliance: the speaker refuses to measure herself by external exemplars, locating the sacred in her own conscience and capacity.

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