people live long and she first started talking to me, they wanted her to be margaret fuller, they wanted her to be a modern woman and wanted to talk about how strong she was and she was. this is a woman who made a 2000 mile journey from st. petersburg to paris with her seven-year-old son through which her pathway, she she had escapees converging on her. she was mistaken for napoleon's sister. she survived a lot. but at the same time she was insecure. she was fragile. she was sick all the time. she was self pitying. she was this complicated person. in many ways i think her insecurities are a little bit liberating. her husband, he was very self serious and he knew he was sort of born for the nation and he had this important role to play and he didn't play it and he was a failure and he had to do these great things and she would have to feel that way. she could sort of lift, cause she didn't have to be this kind of american icon, she could just be herself and she would take things too seriously including herself. she laughed at everybody else and she laughed at herself and there was a way i