Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThose who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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I like to see your eyes praise me and, during such recitals, there are interruptions, not ungrateful to the heart, when the honey that drops from the lips is not merely words.
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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.
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Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
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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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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
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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.
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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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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
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If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
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Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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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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Let their faculties have room to unfold, and their virtues to gain strength, and then determine where the whole sex must stand in the intellectual scale.
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