Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTA 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.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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The beginning is always today.
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A little patience, and all will be over.
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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
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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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Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
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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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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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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.
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We must all be in love once in our lives.
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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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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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The man who had some virtue whilst he was struggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow.
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The education of women has of late been more attended to than formerly; yet they are still reckoned a frivolous sex, and ridiculed or pitied by the writers who endavour by satire or instruction to improve them.
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