The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Fuller frames “women’s genius” in terms associated with Romantic-era psychology and early nineteenth-century science: “electrical” suggests quick, vital, animating energy; “intuitive” points to knowledge gained by immediate perception rather than formal reasoning; and “spiritual” implies a moral or transcendent orientation. Read sympathetically, the line argues for women’s distinctive capacities and for taking them seriously as forms of intelligence and power. Read critically, it also risks essentializing women by assigning them fixed traits. In Fuller’s broader feminist project, such language often functions as a strategic reversal of stereotypes—revaluing qualities dismissed as merely feminine and using them to claim women’s equal dignity and social authority.