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.
For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.
Be what you would seem to be.
Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.
Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.
Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.
Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural.
I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.
Writing her a message that her other friends can see conveys how meaningful her friendship was, so her memory is able to stay alive.