Sarah Margaret Fuller

• 1810-1850

• Transcendentalist

• Writer, The Dial

Sarah Margaret Fuller

• “What woman needs….is not as woman to act or rule, but as a nature to grow, as an intellect to discern, as a soul to live freely, and unimpeded to unfold such powers as were given her when we left our common home.”

From the 1820’s to 1920

1970

Sarah Margaret Fuller

• “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 women” (Heath, p. 1698).

• “You are not the head of your wife. God has given her a mind of her own” (Heath, p. 1701).

Sarah Margaret Fuller

• Mankind is ripe for this, when inward and outward freedom for Woman as much as for Man shall be acknowledged a right, not yielded as a concession” (Heath, p. 1705).

• “Man partakes of the feminine in the Apollo, Woman of the masculine as Minerva” (Heath, p. 1711).

Symbolic Protest?

Dr. Laura Schlesinger: The Proper Care &

Feeding of Husbands (2004).

Sarah Margaret Fuller

• “I think women need, especially at this juncture, a much greater range of occupation than they have, to rouse their latent powers” ( Heath, pp. 1716).

• “I believe that, at present, women are the best helpers of one another.

• Let them think, let them act; till they know what they need” (Heath, p. 1715).