Margaret Fuller Quotes


Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.


Citations

Fuller, Margaret. At Home and Abroad, or Things and Thoughts in America and Europe. Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1856, p. 202.

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Margaret Fuller
Margaret Fuller
  • Born: May 23, 1810
  • Died: July 19, 1850
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Teacher

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.