"Who does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by engaging in gardening, building, or the lowest department of art? Here is something that is not routine--something that draws forth life towards the infinite."

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Source: Margaret Fuller (1844). “Summer on the Lakes”, p.73, Ardent Media

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Margaret Fuller

Transcendentalist, Writer

Margaret Fuller was a 19th-century American journalist and feminist, known for her influential work 'Woman in the Nineteenth Century' advocating for women's rights.

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