She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTMen and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
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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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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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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
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The 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.
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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.
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We must all be in love once in our lives.
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Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
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Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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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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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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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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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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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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