The Wholeness of George Sand

To make whole the halves of her life in a land and time when women by law were lifetime minors was the achievement, the self-realization of that disturbing woman who called herself George Sand. She spoke out as a woman when women were silent, she transcended the male/female stereotypes. She was a lady who appropriated life exactly as if she were a man. Hers, moreover, was the creative, androgynous mind announced by Coleridge, the demonstration that one can be a gentle knight and no less "male," a strong woman and no less "female."