The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThe man who had some virtue whilst he was struggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose.
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Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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A little patience, and all will be over.
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But let me now stop; I may be a little partial, and view every thing with the jaundiced eye of melancholy – for I am sad – and have cause.
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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.
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All power inebriates weak man; and its abuse proves that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
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If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence?
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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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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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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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She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.
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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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Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?
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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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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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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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I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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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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But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.
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In short, women, in general, as well as the rich of both sexes, have acquired all the follies and vices of civilization, and missed the useful fruit.
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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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Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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