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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.

Mary Wollstonecraft

It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Impossible Power Self Love Woman
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
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Eyes Heart Lips Myself Word
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Feeling Heart Myself Wasted Time
All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Humanity Right Violence
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
Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Hands Love Simplicity Truth
Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Friendship Happiness Heart Mindset People World
The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Advice Mindset One Liner
Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Heart Herself Photograph See
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beautiful Learning Seek
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Justice Man Reason
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Heart Myself Taste Virtue
Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Dream End Forever Heart Life Live
We must all be in love once in our lives.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Life Love Ourselves
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Exception Myself Necessary Promise Sex

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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