Literary Birthday – 23 May – Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller was born on 23 May 1810 and died on 19 July 1850.

Margaret Fuller Quotes

1. Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
2. Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
3. If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
4. There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.
5. Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli was an American journalist, critic, and women’s rights advocate. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States. Since her death, the majority of Fuller’s extant papers are kept at Houghton Library and Boston Public Library.

Source for Image: Josiah Johnson Hawes, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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by Amanda Patterson

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