George Eliot, 'Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft'

' On one side we hear that woman's position can never be improved until women themselves are better; on the other, that women can never become better until their position is improved- until the laws are made more just, and a wider field opened to feminine activity. But we constantly hear the same difficulty stated about the human race in general. There is a perpetual action and reaction between individuals and institutions; we must try and mend both by little and little- the only way in which human things can be mended. '