My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTErrors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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Either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized.
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She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
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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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Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
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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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Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does more to gratify our desire for knowledge than our best-laid plans.
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My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.
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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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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 like to use significant words.
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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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