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Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller

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

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Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

– Margaret Fuller

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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.

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Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

– Margaret Fuller

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

– Margaret Fuller

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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

– Margaret Fuller

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

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I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.

– Margaret Fuller

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

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It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.

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

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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.

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Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

– Margaret Fuller

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Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

– Margaret Fuller

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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

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The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

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There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant. There is another mode which enters into the natural history of every thing that breathes and lives, which believes no impulse to be entirely in vain, which scrutinizes circumstances, motive and object before it condemns, and believes there is a beauty in natural form, if its law and purpose be understood.

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

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When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.

– Margaret Fuller

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