Mary Wollstonecraft on care
Mary Wollstonecraft92 quotes“Not 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.”
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Either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft I like to use significant words.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft I have sighed when obliged to confess that either Nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the civilization which has hitherto taken place in the world has been very partial.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft 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.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Into this error men have, probably, been led by viewing education in a false light; not considering it as the first step to form a being advancing gradually towards perfection; but only as a preparation for life.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft All power inebriates weak man; and its abuse proves that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft A king is always a king-and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex, ever stand between them and rational converse.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft
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