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Sarah Margaret Fuller war eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und Journalistin aus dem engsten Kreis der Transzendentalisten und eine der führenden Intellektuellen Neuenglands. Mit ihrem Hauptwerk Frauen im 19. Jahrhundert begründete sie ihren Ruf als frühe Feministin. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. Mai 1810 – 19. Juli 1850
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“But from its primal nature forced to frame
Mysteries, destinies of various name,
Is forced to give that it has taught to claim.”

Life Without and Life Within (1859), The One In All
Kontext: Existence is as deep a verity:
Without the dual, where is unity?
And the "I am"" cannot forbear to be;But from its primal nature forced to frame
Mysteries, destinies of various name,
Is forced to give that it has taught to claim.

“On the boundless plain careering
By an unseen compass steering, Wildly flying, reappearing, —
With untamed fire their broad eyes glowing
In every step a grand pride showing,
Of no servile moment knowing”

Life Without and Life Within (1859), The Captured Wild Horse
Kontext: p>On the boundless plain careering
By an unseen compass steering, Wildly flying, reappearing, —
With untamed fire their broad eyes glowing
In every step a grand pride showing,
Of no servile moment knowing, —Happy as the trees and flowers, In their instinct cradled hours,
Happier in fuller powers, —See the wild herd nobly ranging,
Nature varying, not changing,
Lawful in their lawless ranging.</p

“You are intellect, I am life!”

To Ralph Waldo Emerson, as quoted in "Humanity, said Edgar Allan Poe, is divided into Men, Women, and Margaret Fuller" Joseph Jay Deiss in American Heritage magazine, Vol. 23, Issue 5 (August 1972).

“It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.”

Notes from Cambridge, Massachusetts (July 1842) published in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852), Vol. II, p. 64.

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

As reported by Ralph Waldo Emerson in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1884) Vol. 1, Pt. 4.
Of this comment Perry Miller states "the fact is that at Emerson's table she was speaking the truth." "I find no intellect comparable to my own" in American Heritage magazine, Vol. 8, Issue 2 (February 1957) http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1957/2/1957_2_22.shtml.

“Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.”

"Recipe to prevent the cold of January from utterly destroying life" (30 January 1841), quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1898) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 97.

“Be what you would seem to be.”

English proverb, used by many authors, including some prior to Margaret Fuller's time; Thomas Fuller expresses related thoughts in his "Panegyric" on Charles II, Section 21" in The History of the Worthies of England (1662):
Be you above your ancestors renown'd,
Whose goodness wisely doth your greatness bound;
And, knowing that you may be what you would,
Are pleased to be only what you should.
Misattributed

“To me, our destinies seem flower and fruit
Born of an ever-generating root…”

Life Without and Life Within (1859), The One In All

“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.

“When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.”

Libby Houston, in the poem "Gold" in Necessity (1988).
Misattributed

“Heroes have filled the zodiac of beneficent labors, and then given up their mortal part to the fire without a murmur. Sages and lawgivers have bent their whole nature to the search for truth, and thought themselves happy if they could buy, with the sacrifice of all temporal ease and pleasure, one seed for the future Eden. Poets and priests have strung the lyre with heart-strings, poured out their best blood upon the altar which, reare'd anew from age to age, shall at last sustain the flame which rises to highest heaven. What shall we say of those who, if not so directly, or so consciously, in connection with the central truth, yet, led and fashioned by a divine instinct, serve no less to develop and interpret the open secret of love passing into life, the divine energy creating for the purpose of happiness; — of the artist, whose hand, drawn by a preexistent harmony to a certain medium, moulds it to expressions of life more highly and completely organized than are seen elsewhere, and, by carrying out the intention of nature, reveals her meaning to those who are not yet sufficiently matured to divine it; of the philosopher, who listens steadily for causes, and, from those obvious, infers those yet unknown; of the historian, who, in faith that all events must have their reason and their aim, records them, and lays up archives from which the youth of prophets may be fed. The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose·”

Margaret Fuller buch Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)

“Your prudence, my wise friend, allows too little room for the mysterious whisperings of life.”

To Ralph Waldo Emerson, as quoted in "Humanity, said Edgar Allan Poe, is divided into Men, Women, and Margaret Fuller" Joseph Jay Deiss in American Heritage magazine, Vol. 23, Issue 5 (August 1972).

“Guard thee from the power of evil;
Who cannot trust, vows to the devil.”

Life Without and Life Within (1859), My Seal-Ring

“When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.”

Margaret Chase Smith, quoted in More Than Petticoats : Remarkable Maine Women (2005) by Kate Kennedy
Misattributed

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