Margaret Fuller Quotes
In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.
Sarah Margaret Fuller, 1810-1850, Feminist, Writer & Critic, Women in the Nineteenth Century, 1845
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Chaucer has Criseyde say this. It is the statement that would gladden the heart of any feminist. This was one of Mary McCarthy’s favorite quotations.
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli was an American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. She was the first American female war correspondent, writing for Horace Greeley's New-York Tribune, and full-time book reviewer in journalism. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States.
