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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.

Mary Wollstonecraft

And if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty—they will prove that they have less mind than man.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beautiful Man Mindset Power Woman
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Happiness Love Man Sex Woman
I like to use significant words.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Myself Word
Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Government Husband Intellectual Woman
Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Devil Virtue
Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Equality Life
Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beginning Education People Teaching Thinking Young
Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Equality Opinion Ourselves
Not on the score of modesty, but decency; for the care which some modest women take, making at the same time a display of that care, not to let their legs be seen, is as childish as immodest.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Care Time Woman
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Deserve Ideas Knowledge Mortal Power
All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Humanity Right Violence
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Greatness Injury Moral Myself Power
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Alone Hope Myself Sex View
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Blessing Independence Life Live Secure Virtue
The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Endurance Human Insult Patience Right Silence Wrong
A little patience, and all will be over.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Hope One Liner Patience

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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