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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTMen of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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A man, when he undertakes a journey, has, in general the end in view; a woman thinks more of the incidental occurrences, the strange things that may possibly occur on the road.
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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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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.
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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
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But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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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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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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