And if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty—they will prove that they have less mind than man.
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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Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
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Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
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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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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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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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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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The beginning is always today.
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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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In short, women, in general, as well as the rich of both sexes, have acquired all the follies and vices of civilization, and missed the useful fruit.
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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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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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We must all be in love once in our lives.
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A little patience, and all will be over.
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Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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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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