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
Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.
Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.
I find no intellect comparable to my own
While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.
The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.
Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm.
The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother of genius. Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. And of making others appreciate it ...
After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, 'I too am beautiful!' ... In you I met a real person. I need not give you any other praise.
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.
You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.
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.
The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.
We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.