Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTFew, 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.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sculpture the mind shapes itself to the body and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
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Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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The beginning is always today.
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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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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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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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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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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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They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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