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A king is always a king-and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex, ever stand between them and rational converse.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The greater number of people take their opinions on trust, to avoid the trouble of exercising their own minds, and these indolent beings naturally adhere to the letter, rather than the spirit of a law, divine or human.
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Avoid Divine Greatness Human Law Mindset Opinion People Trust
Let their faculties have room to unfold, and their virtues to gain strength, and then determine where the whole sex must stand in the intellectual scale.
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Intellectual Sex Strength Virtue
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
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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Disappointment Love Trust
The beginning is always today.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beginning Inspirational One Liner
If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
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Children Education Mom Patriotism Principle True
Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
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Beautiful Learning Seek
Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
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Dream End Forever Heart Life Live
The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Advice Mindset One Liner
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sculpture the mind shapes itself to the body and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beautiful Body Mindset Seek Woman
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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End Mindset Strength 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
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Friendship True Love
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to their sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
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Attention Man Pay Sex Support Woman
It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
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Impossible Power Self Love Woman
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Justice Man Reason

A king is always a king-and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex, ever stand between them and rational converse.

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