Top 25 Quotes by Margaret Fuller of 127

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

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

Inspirational, Positive, Education

Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself.

Solitude, Hours, Duty

Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.393, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

Margaret Fuller

Soul, Earth, Should

Margaret Fuller (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.28

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

Margaret Fuller

Men, Sea, Justice

"The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women". Essay by Margaret Fuller, first published in The Dial Magazine, Volume IV, archive.vcu.edu. July 1843.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Margaret Fuller

Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership

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

Margaret Fuller

Men, Feelings, Mind

Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.25, ReadHowYouWant.com

Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

Margaret Fuller

Soul, Failing, Know How

Margaret Fuller, Joel Myerson (1978). “Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters”, p.87, Rowman & Littlefield

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Margaret Fuller

Women, Masculine And Feminine, Two Sides

Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.78, Courier Corporation

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

Margaret Fuller

Men, Society, Doe

Margaret Fuller (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.28

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.

Margaret Fuller

Love, Sex, Men

Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.116, Courier Corporation

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Margaret Fuller

Nature, Rivers, Exception To The Rule

Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.122, ReadHowYouWant.com

It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels.

Margaret Fuller

Angel, Men, May

Margaret Fuller (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.194, ReadHowYouWant.com

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

Margaret Fuller

Truth, Giving, Illusion

Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Henry Channing (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.99

The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

Margaret Fuller

Doors, Mind, Temples

Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman”, p.71