What is margin?

Famous quotes containing the word margin:

    “I love a broad margin to my life.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin “helping” them. Such a world does not exist—never has.”
    —Gerda Lerner (b. 1920)