Mary Wollstonecraft on establishment
Mary Wollstonecraft92 quotes“Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.”
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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.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft 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.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft And if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty – they will prove that they have less mind than man.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft 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.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence?
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft It is not necessary for me always to premise, that I speak of the condition of the whole sex, leaving exceptions out of the question.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft 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.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft After attacking the sacred majesty of Kings, I shall scarcely excite surprise by adding my firm persuasion that every profession, in which great subordination of rank constitutes its power, is highly injurious to morality.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft I like to see your eyes praise me and, during such recitals, there are interruptions, not ungrateful to the heart, when the honey that drops from the lips is not merely words.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft They 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.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft 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.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft
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