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What breadth, what...
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What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
Source: My Past and Thoughts, vol. 2, pt. 5, ch. 41 (1921; tr. by Constance Garnett, 1924 --27).
-- Alexander Herzen, (Apr 6 1812-1870), Russian author; He distrusted governments, was sceptical of western democratic forms, and had great faith in the power of peasants and other ordinary people to organise themselves.