Truth is the first of jewels. Margaret Fuller More Quotes by Margaret Fuller More Quotes From Margaret Fuller Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. Margaret Fuller leadership happiness inspirational If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. Margaret Fuller education positive inspirational There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves. Margaret Fuller mind feelings men It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul. Margaret Fuller soul should earth We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man. Margaret Fuller sea justice men Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself. Margaret Fuller hours duty solitude 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 may men 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 born destiny impossible Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. Margaret Fuller know-how failing soul 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 men sex Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time. Margaret Fuller my-time stealing pain Wine is earth's answer to the sun. Margaret Fuller wine earth answers 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 society doe men The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. Margaret Fuller women spiritual believe 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-feminine women two-sides Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. Margaret Fuller meaningful life funny Nature provides exceptions to every rule. Margaret Fuller exception-to-the-rule nature rivers Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow. Margaret Fuller objects grows birthday All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me. Margaret Fuller blow wind lying
