Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.

Margaret Fuller's Popular Quotes

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

- Margaret Fuller

The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.

- Margaret Fuller

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

- Margaret Fuller

I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led t…

- Margaret Fuller

You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.

- Margaret Fuller

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

- Margaret Fuller

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

- Margaret Fuller

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

- Margaret Fuller

Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.

- Margaret Fuller