All power inebriates weak man; and its abuse proves that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTOnly that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
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Like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.
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Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner when they try to secure the good conduct of women by attempting to keep them always in a state of childhood.
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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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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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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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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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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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Happy would it be for women, if they were only flattered by the men who loved them; I mean, who love the individual, not the sex.
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Considering the length of time that women have been dependent, is it surprising that some of them hug their chains, and fawn like the spaniel?
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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her 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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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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I like to use significant words.
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Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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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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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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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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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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It is not necessary for me always to premise, that I speak of the condition of the whole sex, leaving exceptions out of the question.
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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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