Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTIt is not necessary for me always to premise, that I speak of the condition of the whole sex, leaving exceptions out of the question.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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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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If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence?
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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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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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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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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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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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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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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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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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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.
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It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
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