Margaret Fuller Quotes
An American author, journalist, critic and women's rights activist.
(1810 - 1850)
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A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.
[Happiness]
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Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
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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.
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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
[Self Confidence]
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Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
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Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
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For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
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Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife.
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How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.
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I am 'too fiery' ... yet I wish to be seen as I am, and would lose all rather than soften away anything.
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I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
[Progress]
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I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
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In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.
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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.
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It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
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It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
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It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.
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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.
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It was thy kiss, Love, that made me immortal.
[Kiss]
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