Author: Margaret Fuller

Quotes

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

- Margaret Fuller

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

- Margaret Fuller

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

- Margaret Fuller

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.

- Margaret Fuller

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

- Margaret Fuller

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

- Margaret Fuller

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

- Margaret Fuller

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

- Margaret Fuller

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.

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.

- Margaret Fuller

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