Home / Authors / Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller Quotes

Journalist

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.

Filter quotes by topic

All Men Ifs Mind Should Thinking Seems Genius May Nineteenth Century Soul Facts Humans Knows Made Persons Spirit Book Earth Giving Heart

Famous Margaret Fuller Quotes

“The shrine is vowed to freedom, but, my friend, Freedom is but a means to gain an end. Freedom should build the temple, but the shrine Be consecrate to thought still more divine.”

Thinking Poetry Freedom Poem Thought

Author:Margaret Fuller

“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

“The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.”

Thinking Trying Form Law Causes Saws Greek

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

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

“There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see I think that is enough to say about them.”

Thinking Want Persons Book Sometimes Enough Divine Breaths Noble

Book:My Heart is a Large Kingdom: Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller

Source: My Heart is a Large Kingdom: Selected Letters of 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

“How anyone can remain a Catholic - I mean who has ever been aroused to think, and is not biased by the partialities of childish years - after seeing Catholicism here in Italy I cannot conceive.”

Thinking Years Mean Seeing Catholic Catholicism Biased Partiality

Author:Margaret Fuller

“A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.”

Thinking Men Writing Mean Deals Six Twenties Fingers

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

“Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself”

Thinking

Book:Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Source: Woman in the Nineteenth Century

“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