Margaret Fuller Quotes

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

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.

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

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

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

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

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

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.