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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTIf children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
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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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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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The beginning is always today.
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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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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But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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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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It is not necessary for me always to premise, that I speak of the condition of the whole sex, leaving exceptions out of the question.
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Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to their sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
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I like to use significant words.
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I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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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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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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