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
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
Wine is earth's answer to the sun.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.
Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
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.
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.
While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.