Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTNot on the score of modesty, but decency; for the care which some modest women take, making at the same time a display of that care, not to let their legs be seen, is as childish as immodest.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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I shall not waste my time in rounding periods, nor in fabricating the turgid bombast of artificial feelings, which, coming from the head, never reach the heart.
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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does more to gratify our desire for knowledge than our best-laid plans.
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Rousseau exerts himself to prove that all was right originally: a crowd of authors that all is now right: and I, that all will be right.
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It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
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Soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste are almost synonymous with the epithets of weakness, I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue.
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But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sculpture the mind shapes itself to the body and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
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It is not necessary for me always to premise, that I speak of the condition of the whole sex, leaving exceptions out of the question.
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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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Happy would it be for women, if they were only flattered by the men who loved them; I mean, who love the individual, not the sex.
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