“Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.”

—  Margaret Fuller

Letter to her brother, (20 December 1840) as quoted in The Feminist Papers (1973) by Alice Rossi.

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American feminist, poet, author, and activist 1810–1850

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