Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThose who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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They are the men of fancy, the favourites of the sex, who outwardly respect, and inwardly despise the weak creatures whom they thus sport with.
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As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
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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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It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.
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A king is always a king-and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex, ever stand between them and rational converse.
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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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The beginning is always today.
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And if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty—they will prove that they have less mind than man.
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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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I have sighed when obliged to confess that either Nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the civilization which has hitherto taken place in the world has been very partial.
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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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Either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized.
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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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They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
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