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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTA man, when he undertakes a journey, has, in general the end in view; a woman thinks more of the incidental occurrences, the strange things that may possibly occur on the road.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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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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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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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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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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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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Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
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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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Either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized.
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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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My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.
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It appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground.
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The greater number of people take their opinions on trust, to avoid the trouble of exercising their own minds, and these indolent beings naturally adhere to the letter, rather than the spirit of a law, divine or human.
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Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
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The beginning is always today.
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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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If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence?
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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.
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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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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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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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