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Margaret Fuller, born on May 23, 1810, was an influential American journalist and feminist. She made significant contributions to literature, philosophy, and social reform, and is considered a key figure of the American Renaissance.

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“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

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Author:Margaret Fuller

“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.”

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Book:My Heart is a Large Kingdom: Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller

Source: My Heart is a Large Kingdom: Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller

“Certainly I do not wish that instead of these masters I had read baby books, written down to children, and with such ignorant dullness that they blunt the sense and corrupt the tastes of the still plastic human being. But I do wish that I had read no books at all till later - that I had lived with toys, and played in the open air. Children should not cull the fruits of reflection and observation early, but expand in the sun, and let thoughts come to them. They should not through books antedate their actual experiences.”

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Author:Margaret Fuller

“There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.”

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Book:My Heart is a Large Kingdom: Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller

Source: My Heart is a Large Kingdom: Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller

“It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.”

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Book:Papers on Literature and Art

Source: Papers on Literature and Art