Margaret Fuller Quotes

• It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.

  Margaret Fuller

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• As the friend of the negro assumes that one man cannot, by right, hold another in bondage, should the friend of woman assume that man cannot, by right, lay even well-meant restrictions on woman.

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• Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

  Margaret Fuller

• For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

  Margaret Fuller

• The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

  Margaret Fuller

• Be what you would seem to be – or, if you’d like it put more simply – a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

  Margaret Fuller

• Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

  Margaret Fuller

• It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.

  Margaret Fuller

• Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

  Margaret Fuller

• The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

  Margaret Fuller

• Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

  Margaret Fuller

• A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

  Margaret Fuller

• Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

  Margaret Fuller

• Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

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• I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

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• It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.

  Margaret Fuller

• Men faMale and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.or the sake of getting a living forget to live.

  Margaret Fuller

• It seems that it is madder never to abandon one’s self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

  Margaret Fuller

• It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

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• Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

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Margaret Fuller (29)

Birth:	23rd May, 1810
Death:	19th July, 1850
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Critic, Journalist, Lawyer, Teacher

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