“...one day there will be girls and women whose name will no longer just signify the opposite of the male but something in their own right, something which does not make one think of any supplement or limit but only of life and existence: the female human being.”
About This Quote
Letter to Franz Xaver Kappus (Rome, 14 May 1904).
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