It appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThe 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.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
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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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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.
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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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The beginning is always today.
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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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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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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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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
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A little patience, and all will be over.
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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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Rousseau exerts himself to prove that all was right originally: a crowd of authors that all is now right: and I, that all will be right.
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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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