They are the men of fancy, the favourites of the sex, who outwardly respect, and inwardly despise the weak creatures whom they thus sport with.
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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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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After attacking the sacred majesty of Kings, I shall scarcely excite surprise by adding my firm persuasion that every profession, in which great subordination of rank constitutes its power, is highly injurious to morality.
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.
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How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!
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True sensibility, the sensibility which is the auxiliary of virtue, and the soul of genius, is in society so occupied with the feelings of others, as scarcely to regard its own sensations.
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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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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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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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Taxes on the very necessaries of life, enable an endless tribe of idle princes and princesses to pass with stupid pomp before a gaping crowd, who almost worship the very parade which costs them so dear.
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Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?
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But let me now stop; I may be a little partial, and view every thing with the jaundiced eye of melancholy – for I am sad – and have cause.
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Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
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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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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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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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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
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Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
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It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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The man who had some virtue whilst he was struggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow.
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Considering the length of time that women have been dependent, is it surprising that some of them hug their chains, and fawn like the spaniel?
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We must all be in love once in our lives.
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