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Margaret Fuller: The Woman You Should Know About. Women’s History Month discussion, 2018.

Margaret Fuller was a great woman who lived in early nineteenth century America, whom today gets less recognition than she deserves. Sure, maybe you’ve seen a few quotes, or even posted them yourself. But what do you really know about her and what she did to change America and the world? 

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” -Margaret Fuller

We hear many names come up when talking about the Women’s Rights Movement. Names such as Susan B. Anthony and Eleanor Roosevelt. And while those women worked hard for the rights we have today and continue to inspire women all over the globe, we don’t really hear about who their inspiration was; who they admired. That person was Margaret Fuller.

Margaret Fuller broke multiple gender barriers whilst she was alive. She was the first woman to have access to the Harvard Library, wrote multiple books on women’s rights, and she was the first female editor of the New York Tribune. (A popular media source at the time.) Fuller promoted many progressive beliefs, like reforming the prison system, giving women access to a full education, and spoke on issues of women’s rights and homelessness. Fuller also was part of a group known as the Trancendentalists who were a very big part in the philosophical movement. “They believed in personal transformation and looking beyond religious dogmas.”  Although, she did hold criticism against the group for their belief of personal transformation instead of social reform.

“When people keep telling you that you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try it.” -Margaret Fuller

Not only was Fuller an activist for women’s rights, she also hated slavery and believed that the Native Americans had been poorly and unfairly treated. (To put it lightly.) She was an all around activist for equal rights for people of all races and genders. She would definitely make a pretty kick ass feminist today.

Sadly, Margaret died while returning to America when her ship crashed. However her legacy did not die with her. She lived on through people like Susan B. Anthony and Ralph Waldo Emerson. And although little known today, perhaps her legacy will grow stronger in the coming years.

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Hello readers! This isn’t just a post about Margaret Fuller, it’s a discussion! A chance to talk about the amazing women in history that got us where we are today. Let’s chat!

Happy Women’s History Month!!!

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Articles I used: https://www.biography.com/people/margaret-fuller-9303889

https://www.biographyonline.net/women/margaret-fuller.html

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Mary Shelley's antipathy to the separation of individual interests and public interests came naturally to the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft....Following her mother's example and contrary even to most Enlightenment philosophers, Mary Shelley includes women in the revolutionary concepts of individual worth and the capacity for self-determination. Going beyond rejecting gender barriers, she rejects the usual polarized positions the social code assigned to genders. In fictions as varied as Frankenstein, Valperga, and The Last Man, she advocates a more flexible model of gender, one that rescues women from being exclusively assigned to "domestic" roles. In these and other works, Mary Shelley was among a relatively small number of women writers who published visions of women actively engaged in the public sphere.

Betty T. Bennett, “Mary Shelley’s letters: the public/private self,” in the Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley, p. 212.

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Oh my goodness, Jen Pawol, the FIRST MLB female umpire

Bloody hell finally??

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Joanne Pierce Misko: Pioneering Female F.B.I. Agent Passes Away at 83

Joanne Pierce Misko: A Trailblazer in Law Enforcement Joanne Pierce Misko, who shattered gender barriers as one of the first two women sworn in as special agents for the F.B.I. in 1972, passed away on Friday in Wheatfield, New York, situated east of Niagara Falls. She was 83 years old. Her brother, James Pierce, confirmed that she died in a hospital from complications related to a lung…

Joanne Pierce Misko: Pioneering Female F.B.I. Agent Passes Away at 83

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Top 11 most influential women in tech history

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