Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli was a journalist, critic and women's rights activist.
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“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
“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”
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
“Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.”
“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.”
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.”
“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.”
“It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.”
“I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.”
“Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth”