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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

“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.”

Needs Giving Persons Real Beautiful Mets Praise Rome Real Person

Author:Margaret Fuller

“If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up.”

Ifs Giving Fall Individual Too Much Solitude Resources Relation Stranger Isolation Distraction Fountain Imbecility

Book:Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Source: Woman in the Nineteenth Century

“Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.”

Giving Truth Illusion Give Me Cheat

Book:Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Source: Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

“I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees are in their festive hues. I am not festive, though contented. When obliged to give myself to the prose of life, as I am on this occasion of being established in a new home I like to do the thing, wholly and quite, - to weave my web for the day solely from the grey yarn.”

Life Giving Home Nature Morning Sun Tree Fairs Rivers Shining Occasions Hills Gentle Prose Grey Obliged Hue Sun Shines New Home Good Words Festive Yarn

Book:The letters of Margaret Fuller

Source: The letters of Margaret Fuller

“In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.”

Giving May Hands Able Order Dignity Individuality Stand Alone

Author:Margaret Fuller