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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

“We doubt not the destiny of our country that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.”

World Way Humans Has Beens Made Country Hard Mother Race Known Destiny Doubt Human Nature Accomplish Great Things Our Country Schemes Nativity

Book:Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke

Source: Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke

“Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.”

Men Doe Made Individual Society Institutions Be Good

Book:Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Source: Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

“Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.”

Men Made Belief Millions Hundred One Man Rise Above

Book:Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Source: Woman in the Nineteenth Century

“A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.”

Wells Art Made Literature Interesting Beauty Demand Ordinary Works Of Art Great Work Well Dressed

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

“It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.”

Men Should Made Chance Liberty Principles Understood Fairs Protest Behalf Disobedience Civil Disobedience

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

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

“It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.”

Made Stills Talent Genius Productions Admiration Ambitious Harvest

Book:Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke

Source: Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke