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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

“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

“What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophesy or as poesy...should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open up new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth.”

“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

“Certainly I do not wish that instead of these masters I had read baby books, written down to children, and with such ignorant dullness that they blunt the sense and corrupt the tastes of the still plastic human being. But I do wish that I had read no books at all till later - that I had lived with toys, and played in the open air. Children should not cull the fruits of reflection and observation early, but expand in the sun, and let thoughts come to them. They should not through books antedate their actual experiences.”

Should Humans Children Stills Book Wish Human Beings Sun Written Air Masters Baby Taste Reflection Fruit Ignorant Observation Plastic Toys Blunt Dullness

Author:Margaret Fuller

“The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.”

Should Three Poet Critics Philosopher Observers

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

“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

“Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.”

Should Littles Growth Expression Degrees Proportion Full Life

Book:The letters of Margaret Fuller

Source: The letters of 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

“It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.”

Should Soul Earth Educate

Book:Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Source: Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

“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

“Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.”

Should Kind Play Struggle Fairs Encouragement Plant Despite Atmosphere Vigor Impediments Life Struggle Fair Play

Book:Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Source: Woman in the Nineteenth Century