Margaret Fuller Quotes

• I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

  Margaret Fuller

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• It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.

  Margaret Fuller

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• As the friend of the negro assumes that one man cannot, by right, hold another in bondage, should the friend of woman assume that man cannot, by right, lay even well-meant restrictions on woman.

  Margaret Fuller

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• Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

  Margaret Fuller

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• Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

  Margaret Fuller

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• I accept the universe!

  (Ralph Waldo Emerson’s reported response: “By God, she’d better!”)

  Margaret Fuller

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• Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

  Margaret Fuller

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• The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

  Margaret Fuller

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• Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

  Margaret Fuller

• For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

  Margaret Fuller

• The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

  Margaret Fuller

• Be what you would seem to be – or, if you’d like it put more simply – a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

  Margaret Fuller

• Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

  Margaret Fuller

• It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.

  Margaret Fuller

• Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

  Margaret Fuller

• The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

  Margaret Fuller

• Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

  Margaret Fuller

• A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

  Margaret Fuller

• Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

  Margaret Fuller

• I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

  Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller (29)

Birth:	23rd May, 1810
Death:	19th July, 1850
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Critic, Journalist, Lawyer, Teacher

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• 1951 - Louise Jameson
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• 2004 - Mary McGrory
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