Margaret Fuller Quotes
The position I early was enabled to take was one of self-reliance. And were all women as sure of their wants as I was, the result would be the same. But they are so overloaded with precepts and guardians who think that nothing is so much to be dreaded for a woman as originality of thought or character, that their minds are impeded with doubts till they lose their chance of fair, free proportions. The difficulty is to get them to the point from which they shall naturally develop self-respect, and learn self-help.
This quotation is an amazingly accurate analysis of the difficulty feminism faced. 120 years later, the American Woman’s Movement began to br successful in coping with the problem Fuller had defined so well earlier.
Margaret Fuller, 1810–1850, Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Journalist, Writer & Feminist, Woman 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.
