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Men Quotes by Margaret Fuller
- We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men. If you ask…
- The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
- There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
- I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman…
- Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.
- Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked-for…
- It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of…
- I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.
- The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.
- Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as…
- We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
- Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
- Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
- Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to…
- There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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