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
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.
The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life.
The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.
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.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.