The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three. Margaret Fuller More Quotes by Margaret Fuller More Quotes From Margaret Fuller Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. Margaret Fuller leadershiphappinessinspirational If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. Margaret Fuller educationpositiveinspirational There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves. Margaret Fuller mindfeelingsmen It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul. Margaret Fuller soulshouldearth We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man. Margaret Fuller seajusticemen Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself. Margaret Fuller hoursdutysolitude 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 angelmaymen Truth is the first of jewels. Margaret Fuller truthjewelsfirsts Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself Margaret Fuller thinking Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it. Margaret Fuller borndestinyimpossible Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. Margaret Fuller know-howfailingsoul 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 lovemensex Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time. Margaret Fuller my-timestealingpain Wine is earth's answer to the sun. Margaret Fuller wineearthanswers 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 societydoemen The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. Margaret Fuller womenspiritualbelieve 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 masculine-and-femininewomentwo-sides Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. Margaret Fuller meaningfullifefunny Nature provides exceptions to every rule. Margaret Fuller exception-to-the-rulenaturerivers Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow. Margaret Fuller objectsgrowsbirthday
