Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sculpture the mind shapes itself to the body and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTI 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.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
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Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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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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She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
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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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If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence?
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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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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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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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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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Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?
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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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