I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.
Margaret FullerBeware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.
Margaret FullerBe what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Margaret Fuller