Margaret Fuller Quotes on Virtue
Margaret Fuller was a 19th-century American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate, the first major figure of American feminist political thought and a central figure of the Transcendentalist movement. This page collects quotes attributed to Margaret Fuller on the topic of virtue, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Margaret Fuller:
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”
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Attributed to Margaret Fuller:
“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.”
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“Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot.”
Life of Sir James Mackintosh" in Papers on Literature and Art (1846), p. 50 -
“Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.”
Letter to her brother, (20 December 1840) as quoted in The Feminist Papers (1973) by Alice Rossi