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I feel that that Fuller is expressing her beliefs on equality for women because of when she says "talk French, but know nothing of the language of flowers" this sounds like she is expressing how men "sweet talk" women by speaking french when they know nothing about gentleness.
Modernism is a philosophical movement that along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.