Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThey 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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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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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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We must all be in love once in our lives.
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I like to use significant words.
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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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I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
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The beginning is always today.
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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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If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
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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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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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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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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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They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
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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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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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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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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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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.
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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
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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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Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
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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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