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 WOLLSTONECRAFTIn 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.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
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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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As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
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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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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
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It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
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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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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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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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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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Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to their sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
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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.
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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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