As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTHow much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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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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Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
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Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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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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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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I like to use significant words.
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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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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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The most holy band of society is friendship. It has been well said, by a shrewd satirist, “that rare as true love is, true friendship is still rarer.
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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does more to gratify our desire for knowledge than our best-laid plans.
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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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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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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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We must all be in love once in our lives.
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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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It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.
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All power inebriates weak man; and its abuse proves that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
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