Dupin went to fulfill her wanderlust soul of traveling and pursuing the finer arts Paris had to offer. She began to realize that publishing her work as a woman, much less walking down the street to see a movie, was not going to be an easy task. “Bourgeois women could subvert the constraints of domesticity, but they could rarely remove them all together" (McMilan 62). She gained the power to request to be emancipated from her husband; however, without time and a lawyer, that was not happening as soon as she would have liked because divorce was not a request women were granted.

Divorce was not the only thing women were deprived of. The arts were a main issue amongst the rights of women because they were only allowed to pursue them in their free time. Men were allowed to create such beautiful pictures of women yet women were not welcomed to be the creator. Radical women began to rise up for "the concern to access to 'respectable' employment which would allow them to enter the world of work without any compromise to their bourgeois status" (McMilan 62).

While fighting for rights was a slow uphill battle, Dupin decided she was not going to be still. She decided to go under the pseudonym George Sand, not only for her literary works, but also as a public figure. It was common for women at the time to take on male stage names in order to get their voices heard, however, it was not too often to see a woman dressed in man's clothing. Sand took it to this extent to be able to attend the salons and the events that were deemed worthy only of men. Another issue at the time was that it was not accepted by society for women to be smoking in a public plea. Sand on the other hand was a big fan of smoking cigars. She took hold of social norms and demolished them. She was able to make conversations that were supposedly beyond the female mind in order to show that women are as equal as men.