Quotes About Margaret Fuller

When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.

Margaret Fuller, America's first female public intellectual and a contemporary of Beecher, was her antithesis. In 1840, Fuller became editor of the era's premier highbrow magazine, The Dial. She was then thirty years old.

The life of woman must be outwardly a well-intentioned, cheerful dissimulation of her real life. —MARGARET FULLER

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

above all things; to remember that hypocrisy is the most hopeless as well as the meanest of crimes...

But the intellect, cold, is ever more masculine than feminine; warmed by emotion, it rushes towards mother earth, and puts on the forms of beauty.