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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.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Advice Mindset One Liner
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Man Respect Sex Weakness
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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Intellectual Sex Strength Virtue
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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Justice Man Reason
But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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Philosophy Truth Weakness
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
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Affection Friendship Principle Time
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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Rich Sex Vice Woman
Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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Dignity Man Oppression Woman
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Character Human Myself Sex Virtue
Considering the length of time that women have been dependent, is it surprising that some of them hug their chains, and fawn like the spaniel?
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Time Woman
It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
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Impossible Power Self Love Woman
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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Friendship True Love
Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.
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Affection Believe Love Man Myself Parents Play Relationship
Into this error men have, probably, been led by viewing education in a false light; not considering it as the first step to form a being advancing gradually towards perfection; but only as a preparation for life.
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Education Life Man Mistake Perfection Preparation View
She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Herself Thinking Voice
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Dream Freedom Myself

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