Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller – born on 23rd of May 1810 – was an American writer and critic, and one of the earliest supporters of the women’s rights movement. I talked about her in a couple of posts, like this one for example.

Quotes:

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”

“It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.”

“A home is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.” (some attribute it to Benjamin Franklin)

Margaret Fuller – nata il 23 maggio 1810 – fu una scrittrice e critica americana, una delle prime sostenitrici del movimento per i diritti delle donne. Ne ho parlato in un paio di post, come per esempio in questo.

Tre citazioni:

“Se possiedi la conoscenza, lascia che gli altri vi accendano le loro candele.”

“E’ sorprendente quanta forza, purezza e saggezza siano necessari a un essere umano per tenersi lontano dalla falsità.”

“Un’abitazione non è una casa a meno che non contenga cibo e calore per la mente così come per il corpo.” (alcuni la attribuiscono anche a Benjamin Franklin)

81 thoughts on “Margaret Fuller”

  1. Luisa ! Margaret Fuller was not wrong when she said — a home is no home which doesn’t contain food and fire for mind as well as body . A very perfect and simple definition of a home .Thanks !

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  9. All are very good quotes from intelligent people. The phrase “Knowledge is Power” often attributed to Sir Francis Bacon, but likely with roots in the Book of Proverbs is very true, but it is only power when you give it away to others. Have a great Thursday Luisa. Allan

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  11. Loved the quotes that you selected, cara Luisa. When I tried the links (both the English and Italian option), WordPress did not play nicely and redirected to adding a new post to my own blog site. 😦 Wish I could have read the other blog.

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    1. So strange
      Here is the text:
      “MARGARET FULLER: AN AMERICAN IN ROME”
      “Margaret Fuller – born on 23rd of May 1810 – was an American writer and critic one of the earliest supporters of the women’s rights movement.
      She was the first professional woman journalist of note in America and wrote influential essays on various social issues some of which were collected in the book “Papers on Literature and Art” .
      She also wrote the first major American work of feminism “Women in the Nineteenth Century” (1845) in which she explores women’s role in society and analyses the subtle causes and evil consequences of sexual discrimination. Many of her ideas are strikingly modern, such as the demand for political equality and the ardent appeal for the emotional, intellectual and spiritual fulfilment of women.

      “Were they free, were they wise fully to develop the strength and beauty of woman, they would never wish to be men, or manlike.”

      In 1847 she came to Italy to cover the revolution taking place here, led by Giuseppe Mazzini, whom she had previously met in London.
      In Rome she fell in love with Marquis Giovanni Angelo Ossoli, a nine years younger impoverished Italian nobleman involved in revolutionary activities, with whom she had a son Angelino, she informed her mother about Ossoli and Angelino. explaining that she had kept silent so as not to upset her. They were married secretly, in 1849.
      During the of Revolution and the siege of Rome by the French forces, Fuller assumed charge of one of the city’s hospitals , while her husband took part in the fighting. The city fell in 1850 and the Ossolis were forced to flee Rome: they decided to move to Florence and then to the United States.

      On 17 May 1850 they began a five-week voyage aboard the ship Elizabeth, an American merchant freighter carrying goods, mostly marble from Carrara.
      During the voyage the ship’s captain died of smallpox and the first mate, probably a bit unexperienced, served as captain. On 19 July 1850, the sea became rough and the freighter was unable to withstand the fury of the wind and slammed into a sandbar less than 100 yards from Fire Island, New York,
      All the family perished in that shipwreck, and Fuller’s manuscript on the History of the Roman Republic was lost with them.
      Neither her body nor her husband’s were ever recovered only Angelino’s was brought ashore.

      On the inscription of the monument under which the remains of Angelino are buried, in Mount Auburn Cemetery, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Margaret is remembered as follows:

      “By birth a child of New England
      By adoption a citizen of Rome
      By genius belonging to the world”

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