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
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
I accept the universe!
All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me.
It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels ...
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.