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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

“Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.”

Mind Criticism Critics Critical Impression Entitled Essays Recluse

Book:Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters

Source: Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters

“Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more; both are the entire love, without which heart, mind, and soul cannot be alike satisfied. We love and ought to love one another, not merely for the absolute worth of each, but on account of a mutual fitness of temporary character.”

Should Mind Heart Soul Character Stars Friends Ought Accounts Absolutes Satisfied Mutual Temporary Incentives Love One Another Prophetic Heart Mind And Soul

Author:Margaret Fuller

“As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life.”

Thinking Mind Heart May Enjoyed Daily Life Partnership Entering Heart And Mind Intercourse

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

“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

“All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.”

Mind Kind Different Feelings Greatness Particular Mark Testimony Variation Different Minds

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

“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

“Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.”

Mind Earth Treasure Drudgery

Book:Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)

Source: Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)

“There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.”

Men Mind Feelings Slave Tone

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

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

“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.”

Men Mind Important Facts Truth Turns Beauty Rocks Flower Naked Substance Attractive Fancy Reasoning Dry Faculty Marvelous Vivid Brows Exhibitions Moss Precipice Blooming Flower

Author:Margaret Fuller

“The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.”

Men Mind Civilization Civilized Imperfect Savages

Book:The Essential Margaret Fuller

Source: The Essential Margaret Fuller