The beginning is always today.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTStill the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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.
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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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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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But let me now stop; I may be a little partial, and view every thing with the jaundiced eye of melancholy – for I am sad – and have cause.
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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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I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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I like to use significant words.
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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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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.
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Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
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Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.
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Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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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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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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Taxes on the very necessaries of life, enable an endless tribe of idle princes and princesses to pass with stupid pomp before a gaping crowd, who almost worship the very parade which costs them so dear.
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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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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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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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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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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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Let woman share the rights, and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated, or justify the authority that chains such a weak being to her duty.
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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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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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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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