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.
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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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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I 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.
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It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.
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I shall not waste my time in rounding periods, nor in fabricating the turgid bombast of artificial feelings, which, coming from the head, never reach the heart.
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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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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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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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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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The education of women has of late been more attended to than formerly; yet they are still reckoned a frivolous sex, and ridiculed or pitied by the writers who endavour by satire or instruction to improve them.
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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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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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She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
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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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It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
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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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