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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTIt is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.
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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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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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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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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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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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They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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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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Taxes on the very necessaries of life, enable an endless tribe of idle princes and princesses to pass with stupid pomp before a gaping crowd, who almost worship the very parade which costs them so dear.
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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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It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
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I like to use significant words.
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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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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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