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Margaret Fuller Quotes
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Famous Margaret Fuller Quotations
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Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (May 23, 1810 - July 19, 1850) was a journalist, critic and women's rights activist associated with the American transcendental movement. She was the first full-time female book reviewer in journalism. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States
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- A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. Margaret Fuller »
- Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. Margaret Fuller »
- Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. Margaret Fuller »
- Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife. Margaret Fuller »
- If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. Margaret Fuller »
- It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. Margaret Fuller »
- It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant. Margaret Fuller »
- Male 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. Margaret Fuller »
- Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. Margaret Fuller »
- Nature provides exceptions to every rule. Margaret Fuller »
- Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. Margaret Fuller »
- The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. Margaret Fuller »
- When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay. Margaret Fuller »
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