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Margaret Fuller

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About Margaret Fuller

Sarah Margaret Fuller, sometimes referred to as 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 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.

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It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor be…
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

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Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.