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Quotes from Margaret Fuller

Would that ... a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honour become identical.
~ Margaret Fuller
It was thy kiss, Love, that made me immortal.
~ Margaret Fuller
I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
~ Margaret Fuller
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
~ Margaret Fuller
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
~ Margaret Fuller
There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
~ Margaret Fuller
Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
~ Margaret Fuller
There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
~ Margaret Fuller
Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
~ 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
After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, 'I too am beautiful!' ... In you I met a real person. I need not give you any other praise.
~ Margaret Fuller
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
~ Margaret Fuller
The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
~ Margaret Fuller
With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!
~ Margaret Fuller
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
~ Margaret Fuller
Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.
~ Margaret Fuller
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
~ Margaret Fuller
Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
~ 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
I myself am more divine than any I see.
~ 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
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and pruning knife.
~ Margaret Fuller
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
~ Margaret Fuller
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
~ Margaret Fuller