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Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Education Live Man Opinion Woman Worth
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 WOLLSTONECRAFT

Man Respect Sex Weakness
And if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty—they will prove that they have less mind than man.
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Beautiful Man Mindset Power Woman
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 WOLLSTONECRAFT

Equality Establishment Man Power Virtue Weakness
Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Affection Potential Self Love
All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Humanity Right Violence
They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
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Result Slave
Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
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Genius Man Talent Woman
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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Beginning Education People Teaching Thinking Young
If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Ignorance Philosophy Woman
I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Love Man Myself Reality Reason
The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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Advice Mindset One Liner
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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Difference Greatness Man Myself Nature Place World
Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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Equality Opinion Ourselves
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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Himself Right
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Justice Man Reason

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