Not on the score of modesty, but decency; for the care which some modest women take, making at the same time a display of that care, not to let their legs be seen, is as childish as immodest.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTMen who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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A king is always a king-and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex, ever stand between them and rational converse.
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I like to use significant words.
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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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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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She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.
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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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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?
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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 appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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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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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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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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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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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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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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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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It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
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It 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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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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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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They are the men of fancy, the favourites of the sex, who outwardly respect, and inwardly despise the weak creatures whom they thus sport with.
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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sculpture 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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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
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