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
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.
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Writing her a message that her other friends can see conveys how meaningful her friendship was, so her memory is able to stay alive.
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.
When I saw it, the damage was severe, ... It really fried the unit.
What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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.
Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.
There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see I think that is enough to say about them...
The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.
I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with every rising sun to gather it.