margaret fuller

“ ... beings, likely to be left alone, need to be fortified and furnished within themselves, and education and thought have tended more and more to regard these beings as related to absolute being ... ”

“ All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. ”

“ Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself. ”

“ Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison. ”

“ But her eye, that torch or the soul, is untamed, and in the intensity of her reading, we see a soul invincibly young in faith and hope. ”

“ ... can we feel that Man will always do justice to the interests of Woman? Can we think that he takes a sufficiently discerning and religious view of her office and destiny ever to do her justice, except when prompted by sentimentaccidentally or transiently? ”

“ Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. ”

“ Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break. ”

“ It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels. ”

“ We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men. ”