Margaret Fuller Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“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.”

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

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

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

“Nature provides exceptions to every rule.”

“Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.”

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

“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.”

“It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.”