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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

This book provides an in-depth look at the life of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, exploring her role as a journalist, critic, and intellectual during the 19th century. It delves into her personal and professional relationships, her contributions to the women's rights movement, and her influential work in the realm of literature. more

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Margaret Fuller
Margaret Fuller

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. more

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“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.”

“The shadow of a cornstalk on the ground is lovely, but it is no denial of its loveliness to see as one looks on it that it is telling the time of day, the position of the earth and the sun, the size of our planet and its shape, and perhaps even the length of its life and ours among the stars.”

“If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.”