The beginning is always today.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTI love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
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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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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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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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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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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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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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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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They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
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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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As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
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Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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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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I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a human being, regardless of the distinction of sex.
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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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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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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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Like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.
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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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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
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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?
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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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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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