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 WOLLSTONECRAFTHappy 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.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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A little patience, and all will be over.
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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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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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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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Rousseau exerts himself to prove that all was right originally: a crowd of authors that all is now right: and I, that all will be right.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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We must all be in love once in our lives.
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Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
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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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I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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