Rishita Chaudhary

Holding up Mary Somerville as a model of possibility, Fuller argued that when unblinded by the “narrowness or partial views of the home circle” and granted equal access to education, “women are better aware how rich and great the universe is”. Only with a full view of this richness would women be able to carve out their own path, rather than seeing

Questions revolving around the economic inequalities hardwired into marriage by the collusion of social convention and the law

• Maria popova, Figuring

At watershed moments of upheaval and transformation, we anticipate with terror the absence of the familiar parts of life and of ourselves that are being washed away by the current of change. But we fail to envision the unfamiliar gladnesses and gratifications the new tide would bring, the unfathomed presences, for our imaginations are bounded by