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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
— Margaret Fuller
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Margaret Fuller
journalist, translator, reporter, essayist, autobiographer, writer, philosopher, women's rights activist, literary critic, abolitionist, newspaperperson
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1810 – 1850
Sarah Margaret Fuller, sometimes referred to as Margaret Fuller Ossoli, was an American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. She was the first American female war correspondent and full-time book reviewer in journalism. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States.
All Quotes by 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.
— Margaret Fuller
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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
— Margaret Fuller
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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
— 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.
— Margaret Fuller
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A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
— Margaret Fuller
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We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
— Margaret Fuller
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A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
— Margaret Fuller
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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