The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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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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A little patience, and all will be over.
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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 being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.
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It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.
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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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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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After attacking the sacred majesty of Kings, I shall scarcely excite surprise by adding my firm persuasion that every profession, in which great subordination of rank constitutes its power, is highly injurious to morality.
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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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Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
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Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
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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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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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If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
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