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MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThe appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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After attacking the sacred majesty of Kings, I shall scarcely excite surprise by adding my firm persuasion that every profession, in which great subordination of rank constitutes its power, is highly injurious to morality.
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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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Taxes on the very necessaries of life, enable an endless tribe of idle princes and princesses to pass with stupid pomp before a gaping crowd, who almost worship the very parade which costs them so dear.
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I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
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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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I 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.
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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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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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A little patience, and all will be over.
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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does more to gratify our desire for knowledge than our best-laid plans.
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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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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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They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
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They who pass their whole lives in working for their daily bread, have no ideas beyond their business or their interest, and all their understanding seems to lie in their fingers ends.
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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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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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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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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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Like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.
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Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
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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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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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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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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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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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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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