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 WOLLSTONECRAFTThus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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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Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
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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.
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It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
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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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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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Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
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Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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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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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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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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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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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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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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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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True sensibility, the sensibility which is the auxiliary of virtue, and the soul of genius, is in society so occupied with the feelings of others, as scarcely to regard its own sensations.
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It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
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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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I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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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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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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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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As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
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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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Into this error men have, probably, been led by viewing education in a false light; not considering it as the first step to form a being advancing gradually towards perfection; but only as a preparation for life.
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