Quotes by Fuller, Margaret

"It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant."

Fuller, Margaret on genius   

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

Fuller, Margaret on life
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"Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold."

Fuller, Margaret on love
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"Nature provides exceptions to every rule."

Fuller, Margaret on nature
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"Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved."

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"It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods."

Fuller, Margaret on reality   

"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."

Fuller, Margaret on sex   

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

Fuller, Margaret on books - reading
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"It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore."

Fuller, Margaret on books - reading   

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

Fuller, Margaret on women   

"There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant. There is another mode which enters into the natural history of every thing that breathes and lives, which believes no impulse to be entirely in vain, which scrutinizes circumstances, motive and object before it condemns, and believes there is a beauty in natural form, if its law and purpose be understood."

Fuller, Margaret on criticism   

"Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions."

Fuller, Margaret on criticism   

"I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own. "

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