Margaret Fuller

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

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

“Nature provides exceptions to every rule.”

“We would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men.”

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

“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.”

“A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.”

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

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

“Let them be sea captains, if you will.”

“The heart is the best logician.”

“It is a vulgar error to suppose that love can be gratified by vanity and selfishness.”

“Genius will live and thrive without training, but it is undoubtedly capable of infinitely greater results when trained.”

“Humanity is not a completed thing.”