Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
- Margaret Fuller Quote

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
- Margaret Fuller Quote

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
- Margaret Fuller Quote

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

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
- Margaret Fuller Quote

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

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.
- Margaret Fuller Quote

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

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.
- Margaret Fuller Quote

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.
- Margaret Fuller Quote

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience; and casts light into the cavern through which he worked his cause up to the cheerful day.
- Margaret Fuller Quote

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
- Margaret Fuller Quote

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
- Margaret Fuller Quote

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

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

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
- Margaret Fuller Quote

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
- Margaret Fuller Quote

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
- Margaret Fuller Quote

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
- Margaret Fuller Quote