Margaret Fuller
Margaret Fuller
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, commonly known as Margaret Fuller, was an American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. She was the first full-time American female book reviewer in journalism. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth23 May 1810
CityCambridge, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Margaret Fuller quotes about
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.
I guess I felt compelled to express the loss I was feeling and the fact that I was praying for her. I didn't really think about whether she would receive my message or not.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future.
Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.
We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.
This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.
Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.