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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Equality Opinion Ourselves
But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Philosophy Truth Weakness
Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Dream End Forever Heart Life Live
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?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Time Woman
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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Endurance Human Insult Patience Right Silence Wrong
The most holy band of society is friendship. It has been well said, by a shrewd satirist, “that rare as true love is, true friendship is still rarer.
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Friendship True Love
The beginning is always today.
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Beginning Inspirational 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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Difference Greatness Man Myself Nature Place World
Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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Heart Herself Photograph See
The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.
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Deserve Ideas Knowledge Mortal Power
Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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Affection Potential Self Love
She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.
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Creation Herself Man Reason
A 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.
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Man Possible Thinking View Woman
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
Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
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Character Woman
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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Death Eat Food Language Love Moral Philosophy Reality Reason

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