But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTRousseau 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.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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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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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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I like to use significant words.
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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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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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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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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
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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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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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She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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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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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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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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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.
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A man, when he undertakes a journey, has, in general the end in view; a woman thinks more of the incidental occurrences, the strange things that may possibly occur on the road.
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If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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