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
Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.
Truth is the first of jewels.
As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life.
The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.
Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time.
Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.
The life of the soul is incalculable.
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.
A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.