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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTSolitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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And if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty—they will prove that they have less mind than man.
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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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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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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.
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As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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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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If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
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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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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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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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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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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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The man who had some virtue whilst he was struggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow.
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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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Considering the length of time that women have been dependent, is it surprising that some of them hug their chains, and fawn like the spaniel?
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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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Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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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.
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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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Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
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Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to their sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
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