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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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Famous Margaret Fuller Quotes

“Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.”

Source: Woman in the Nineteenth Century

“Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.”

Art Facts Symbols Interiors Adequate Presenting

Book:At home and abroad: or, Things and thoughts in America and Europe

Source: At home and abroad: or, Things and thoughts in America and Europe

“Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm.”

May Facts Grows Palms Juice

Book:The Essential Margaret Fuller

Source: The Essential Margaret Fuller

“The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.”

Men Facts Science Purpose He Man Connections Statements Verify

Book:The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion

Source: The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion

“I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.”

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Book:Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Source: Woman in the Nineteenth Century

“Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked-for beauty, make flowers bloom even on the brow of the precipice, and, when nothing better can be had, can turn the very substance of rock itself into moss and lichens. This faculty is uncomparingly the most important for the vivid and attractive exhibition of truth to the minds of men.”

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Author:Margaret Fuller