Published in 1845, Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century is an important piece of American and feminist literature. However, it has not always been considered so. Many of Fuller’s early reviews, those particularly done by Orestes A. Brownson, a prominent editor of the time, discredited Woman as a work of literature citing its apparent lack of form, clarity, and direction. He instead chose to label Woman as more of a “long talk,” a writing style he believed women to be privy to. For a very long time Fuller’s Woman has hung in a kind of limbo, leaving many readers and scholars asking the same questions: Is Fuller’s Woman considered a long philosophical talk or literature? Is it indicative of “womanly” writing? In her article, “The Adventure of Reading: Literature and Philosophy, Cavell and Beauvoir,” Toril Moi states that most attempts to distinguish between philosophy and literature have disappointed because all that seems to come up is a list of binary oppositions. Moi’s binary oppositions between philosophy and literature echo many of the same points that historically defined “men’s writing” and “women’s writing.” This essay will show how Fuller’s work implodes the divide between literature and philosophy as well as breaks down the gender binaries prevalent in works of this time period.