Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner when they try to secure the good conduct of women by attempting to keep them always in a state of childhood.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThey who pass their whole lives in working for their daily bread, have no ideas beyond their business or their interest, and all their understanding seems to lie in their fingers ends.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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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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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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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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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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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
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I like to use significant words.
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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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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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Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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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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Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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