They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
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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Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
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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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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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Like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.
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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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We must all be in love once in our lives.
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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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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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It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
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My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.
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Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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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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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
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Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
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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 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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Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
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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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But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does more to gratify our desire for knowledge than our best-laid plans.
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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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All power inebriates weak man; and its abuse proves that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
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They who pass their whole lives in working for their daily bread, have no ideas beyond their business or their interest, and all their understanding seems to lie in their fingers ends.
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