The beginning is always today.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTI gazed around with rapture, and felt more of that spontaneous pleasure which gives credibility to our expectation of happiness than I had for a long, long time before.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Not on the score of modesty, but decency; for the care which some modest women take, making at the same time a display of that care, not to let their legs be seen, is as childish as immodest.
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Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
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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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I like to use significant words.
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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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It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
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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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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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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.
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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
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Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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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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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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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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