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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

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”

“The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.”

Ifs May Children Character Parent Poetic

Book:Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman

Source: Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman

“I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with every rising sun to gather it.”

Ifs Thinking World Should Heaven Sun Desert Rising Stand Alone

Author: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.”

Ifs Sin Fashion Mines Deserve London Punishment Opera

Book:Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman

Source: Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman

“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

“Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.”

Ifs Pleasure Entertainment Beloved Poison Grain Disposition Amiable Being Popular

Book:Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Comfort Edition)

Source: Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Comfort Edition)

“Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.”

Ifs Differences Keys Diversity Harmony Notes Unity In Diversity

Author:Margaret Fuller

“A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.”

Ifs Way Mind Humans Wells Home Body House Human Beings Fire One Way Expansion

Book:Woman in the nineteenth century: and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition and duties of woman

Source: Woman in the nineteenth century: and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition and duties of woman

“We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.”

Ifs Men May Care Culture Asks Justice Cases Path Sea Office Diversity Social Justice Ask Me Thrown Barriers Captains Arbitrary

Author: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.”

Ifs Mind Wells Home Body Seems House Fire

Author:Margaret Fuller

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Love Needs Should Firsts Facts Wish Sex Poverty Know How Needed Fit Weakness Independence Sake Worthy Devotion Being Loved How To Love

Book:Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Source: Woman in the Nineteenth Century