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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

“The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated; it is a maxim.”

Knows Men Soul Form Law Effort Know How Failing Highest Ideals Prophet Destined Maxims Ideal Man

Book:The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings

Source: The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings

“The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.”

Knows Should Mind Left Doors Temples Highways Open Mind

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 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

“I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.”

People Knows America My Own Knowing Intellect Nineteenth Century

Author:Margaret Fuller

“Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.”

Knows Soul Know How Failing Human Soul Ideal Man

Book:Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters

Source: Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters

“I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.”

Knows Men Wisdom Pursue Impulse Resolution Inquiry Forbidden

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