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 am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.
Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more; both are the entire love, without which heart, mind, and soul cannot be alike satisfied. We love and ought to love one another, not merely for the absolute worth of each, but on account of a mutual fitness of temporary character.
There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
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.
As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life.
What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
When I saw it, the damage was severe, ... It really fried the unit.
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.
Writing her a message that her other friends can see conveys how meaningful her friendship was, so her memory is able to stay alive.
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it
We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.