Margaret Fuller Quotes
American - Critic May 23, 1810 - June 19, 1850


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

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
Margaret Fuller

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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

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.
Margaret Fuller

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
Margaret Fuller

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
Margaret Fuller