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Quotes by Margaret Fuller

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.
– Margaret Fuller
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
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
– Margaret Fuller
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
– Margaret Fuller
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
– Margaret Fuller
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
– Margaret Fuller
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
– Margaret Fuller
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
– Margaret Fuller
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
– Margaret Fuller
Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
– Margaret Fuller
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
– Margaret Fuller
Man tells his aspiration in his God but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
– Margaret Fuller
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
– 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.
– Margaret Fuller