How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTShe would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
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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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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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Let their faculties have room to unfold, and their virtues to gain strength, and then determine where the whole sex must stand in the intellectual scale.
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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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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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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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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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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Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
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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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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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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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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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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.
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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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