Margaret Fuller

From Margaret Fuller

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Cover of Becoming: A Spiritual Guide for Navigating Adulthood

Be revered In thee the faithful hope that still looks forward, And keeps the life-spark warm of future action Beneath the cloak of patient sufferance.

Closing | By Margaret Fuller | June 25, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Faith, Hope, Patience, Self-Respect, Strength, Suffering, Unitarianism

"Let it not be said, wherever there is energy or creative genius, ʹShe has a masculine mind.ʹ This by no means argues a willing want of generosity toward Woman. Man is as generous towards her as he knows how to be. Wherever she has herself arisen in national or private history, and nobly shone...

Quote | By Margaret Fuller | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: History, Men, Respect, Self-Respect, Women

"Thou art greatly wise, my friend, and ever respected by me, yet I find not in your theory or your scope, room enough for the lyric inspirations, or the mysterious whispers of life. To me it seems that it is madder never to abandon oneself, than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a...

Quote | By Margaret Fuller | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Awe, Mystery, Sacred, Searching, Vulnerability, Wonder

"I am absurdly fearful, and various omens have combined to give me a dark feeling. I am become indeed a miserable coward, for the sake of Angelino. I fear heat and cold, fear the voyage, fear biting poverty....

Quote | By Margaret Fuller | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: America, Death, Fear, History, Unitarianism

"I never lived, that I remember, what you call a common natural day. All my days are touched by the supernatural, for I feel the pressure of hidden causes, and the presence, sometimes the communion, of unseen powers. It needs not that I should ask the clairvoyant whether a spirit‐world projects...

Quote | By Margaret Fuller | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Awe, History, Mystery, Presence, Wonder

"What Woman needs is not as a woman to act or rule, but as a nature to grow, as an intellect to discern, as a soul to live freely and unimpeded."...

Quote | By Margaret Fuller | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Freedom, Growth, History, Power, Self-Respect, Women

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. Variants: If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it."...

Quote | By Margaret Fuller | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Caring, Interdependence, Strength, Wisdom

"Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow."...

Quote | By Margaret Fuller | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Growth, Purpose, Searching

"We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to Woman as freely as to Man. Were this done, and a slight temporary fermentation allowed to subside, we should see crystallizations more pure and of more various beauty....

Quote | By Margaret Fuller | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: America, Equity, Freedom, History, Men, Self-Respect, Women

"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...

Quote | By Margaret Fuller | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Authority, History, Power, Purpose, Self-Respect, Women

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