Top 15 Margaret Fuller Quotes

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

If you have knowledge , let others light their candles in it.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” — Margaret Fuller

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

There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

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.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

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... Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself

Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.