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Saturday, October 9, 2010

Thought for the Day

“A house is not a home unless
it contains food and fire for the mind
as well as the body.”

~ Margaret Fuller


*Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Born: May 23, 1810 Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died: July 19, 1850 (aged 40) Off Fire Island, New York, U.S.

An American journalist, critic, and women’s rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. She was the first full-time American female book reviewer in journalism. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States.

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