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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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
Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Establishment Man Woman Worth
Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does more to gratify our desire for knowledge than our best-laid plans.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Desire Knowledge Life Ourselves
Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Nature Respect Violence
Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Equality Life
I like to use significant words.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Myself Word
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Choice Deep Evil Happiness Man Mistake Philosophy
The greater number of people take their opinions on trust, to avoid the trouble of exercising their own minds, and these indolent beings naturally adhere to the letter, rather than the spirit of a law, divine or human.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Avoid Divine Greatness Human Law Mindset Opinion People Trust
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Blessing Independence Life Live Secure Virtue
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Happiness Love Man Sex 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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Friendship True Love
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Creation Herself Man Reason
Soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste are almost synonymous with the epithets of weakness, I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Heart Myself Taste Virtue
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Rich Sex Vice Woman
I have sighed when obliged to confess that either Nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the civilization which has hitherto taken place in the world has been very partial.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Difference Greatness Man Myself Nature Place World
My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Alone Hope Myself Sex View

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