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Woman in the Nineteenth Century QUOTES

Woman in the Nineteenth Century QUOTES

1 " Vous ne pouvez pas le croire, vous les hommes, mais la seule raison pour laquelle les femmes assument ce qui vous convient le plus, c'est que vous les empêchez de découvrir ce qui leur convient à elles. Si elles avaient la liberté, si elles avaient la sagesse de pleinement développer leur force et leur beauté de femmes, elles ne souhaiteraient jamais être des hommes ou semblables à des hommes. "

― Margaret Fuller , Woman in the Nineteenth Century

2 " Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself "

― Margaret Fuller , Woman in the Nineteenth Century

3 " Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison. "

― Margaret Fuller , Woman in the Nineteenth Century

4 " But her eye, that torch or the soul, is untamed, and in the intensity of her reading, we see a soul invincibly young in faith and hope. "

― Margaret Fuller , Woman in the Nineteenth Century

5 " Accursed be he who willingly saddens an immortal spirit---doomed to infamy in later, wiser ages, doomed in future stages of his own being to deadly penance, only short of death. "

― Margaret Fuller , Woman in the Nineteenth Century

6 " Yet, by men in this country, as by the Jews, when Moses was leading them to the promised land, everything has been done that inherited depravity could do, to hinder the promise of Heaven from its fulfilment. The cross, here as elsewhere, has been planted only to be blasphemed by cruelty and fraud. "

― Margaret Fuller , Woman in the Nineteenth Century

7 " ...above all things; to remember that hypocrisy is the most hopeless as well as the meanest of crimes... "

― Margaret Fuller , Woman in the Nineteenth Century

8 " But the intellect, cold, is ever more masculine than feminine; warmed by emotion, it rushes towards mother earth, and puts on the forms of beauty. "

― Margaret Fuller , Woman in the Nineteenth Century

9 " We have waited here long in the dust; we are tired and hungry; but the triumphal procession must appear at last. "

― Margaret Fuller , Woman in the Nineteenth Century

10 " Here, as elsewhere, the gain of creation consists always in the growth of individual minds, which live and aspire, as flowers bloom and birds sing, in the midst of morasses; and in the continual development of that thought, the thought of human destiny, which is given to eternity adequately to express, and which ages of failure only seemingly impede. "

― Margaret Fuller , Woman in the Nineteenth Century

11 " ... beings, likely to be left alone, need to be fortified and furnished within themselves, and educationand thought have tended more and more to regard these beings as related to absolute being ... "

― Margaret Fuller , Woman in the Nineteenth Century