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
Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man ...
Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.
I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.
Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.
Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.
The persons whom you have idolized can never, in the end, be ungrateful, and, probably, at the time of retreat they still do justice to your heart. But, so long as you must draw persons too near you, a temporary recoil is sure to follow. It is the character striving to defend itself from a heating and suffocating action upon it.
Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.
... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.
Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.
Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.
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.
The life of the soul is incalculable.