10 Quotes by Margaret Fuller about men
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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
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It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels ...
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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 this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.
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Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.
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The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.
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There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
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Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.
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The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated; it is a maxim.
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Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man ...
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