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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.

Mary Wollstonecraft

I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Break Up Heart Myself True Love
The man who had some virtue whilst he was struggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Man Struggle Virtue
Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Dignity Man Oppression Woman
How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Accomplishment Beautiful Respect Woman
I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Myself Power Woman Women Empowerment
All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Humanity Right Violence
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

End Mindset Strength Woman
Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Friendship Happiness Heart Mindset People World
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 WOLLSTONECRAFT

Feeling Heart Myself Wasted Time
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
We must all be in love once in our lives.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Life Love Ourselves
The education of women has of late been more attended to than formerly; yet they are still reckoned a frivolous sex, and ridiculed or pitied by the writers who endavour by satire or instruction to improve them.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Education Improvement Sex Woman Writing
But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Philosophy Truth Weakness
If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Children Education Mom Patriotism Principle True
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
Either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Difference Greatness Man Nature

Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.

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