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 WOLLSTONECRAFTIt appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground.
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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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Taxes on the very necessaries of life, enable an endless tribe of idle princes and princesses to pass with stupid pomp before a gaping crowd, who almost worship the very parade which costs them so dear.
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Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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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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If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
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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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The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.
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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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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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A man, when he undertakes a journey, has, in general the end in view; a woman thinks more of the incidental occurrences, the strange things that may possibly occur on the road.
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Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.
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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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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.
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Like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.
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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.
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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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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.
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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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She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
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True sensibility, the sensibility which is the auxiliary of virtue, and the soul of genius, is in society so occupied with the feelings of others, as scarcely to regard its own sensations.
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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