Happy would it be for women, if they were only flattered by the men who loved them; I mean, who love the individual, not the sex.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTParental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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Let their faculties have room to unfold, and their virtues to gain strength, and then determine where the whole sex must stand in the intellectual scale.
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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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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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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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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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The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.
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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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Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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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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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 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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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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Not on the score of modesty, but decency; for the care which some modest women take, making at the same time a display of that care, not to let their legs be seen, is as childish as immodest.
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True sensibility, the sensibility which is the auxiliary of virtue, and the soul of genius, is in society so occupied with the feelings of others, as scarcely to regard its own sensations.
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Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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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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As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
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A little patience, and all will be over.
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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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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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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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She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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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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