don't think I should be in the business of making big pronouncements about where we are now, but I would say that dissatisfaction is as acute now as …

- Christine Jennings

There are Harvard grads, free thinkers, feminists, abolitionists, well-to-do people who want to go write poetry and live on a farm and cook and laugh…

- Christine Jennings

The vision shared by both [French utopian] Charles Fourier and Robert Owen was for an entire town to fit into one structure. Owen's design for what h…

- Christine Jennings

Some people think God is going to guide those humans. The Oneida community and the Shakers both believed that they had received revelations about how…

- Christine Jennings

They [Oneida people] didn't want to fix problems one at a time. If someone invited them to a feminist convention, their answer would have been, 'In t…

- Christine Jennings

The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live. Fourier was very …

- Christine Jennings

Margaret Fuller was already a celebrity, travelling around the world. Emerson, who was the axis around which that whole community turned, just didn't…

- Christine Jennings

The Oneida Perfectionists, along with some of the others, believed that feminism, and abolitionism, and other causes that they pursued in their own w…

- Christine Jennings

The Jacksonian era is generally talked about in terms of individualism, and the development of free market capitalism, and Victorian prudery. It was …

- Christine Jennings