We must all be in love once in our lives.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTSome women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste are almost synonymous with the epithets of weakness, I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue.
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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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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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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
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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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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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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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They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
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Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner when they try to secure the good conduct of women by attempting to keep them always in a state of childhood.
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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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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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If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
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I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a human being, regardless of the distinction of sex.
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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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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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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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A king is always a king-and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex, ever stand between them and rational converse.
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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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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 justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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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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She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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