Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
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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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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If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
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Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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Not on the score of modesty, but decency; for the care which some modest women take, making at the same time a display of that care, not to let their legs be seen, is as childish as immodest.
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I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.
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I shall not waste my time in rounding periods, nor in fabricating the turgid bombast of artificial feelings, which, coming from the head, never reach the heart.
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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We must all be in love once in our lives.
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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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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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Either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized.
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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