Mary Wollstonecraft on thinking
Mary Wollstonecraft92 quotes“She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.”
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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.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft 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.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft 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.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft 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.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft 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.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
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