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?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTIndependence 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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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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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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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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Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
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The education of women has of late been more attended to than formerly; yet they are still reckoned a frivolous sex, and ridiculed or pitied by the writers who endavour by satire or instruction to improve them.
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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does more to gratify our desire for knowledge than our best-laid plans.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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I have sighed when obliged to confess that either Nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the civilization which has hitherto taken place in the world has been very partial.
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Into this error men have, probably, been led by viewing education in a false light; not considering it as the first step to form a being advancing gradually towards perfection; but only as a preparation for life.
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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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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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In short, women, in general, as well as the rich of both sexes, have acquired all the follies and vices of civilization, and missed the useful fruit.
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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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Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
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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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I gazed around with rapture, and felt more of that spontaneous pleasure which gives credibility to our expectation of happiness than I had for a long, long time before.
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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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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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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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They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
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Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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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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Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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