Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

She had a relationship with Giovanni Ossoli with whom Margaret Fuller had a child. A year later Margaret Fuller was sent to Europe for the Tribune as its first female correspondent. Many of her contemporaries however were not supportive including her former friend Harriet Martineau.