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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.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
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Genius Man Talent Woman
True sensibility, the sensibility which is the auxiliary of virtue, and the soul of genius, is in society so occupied with the feelings of others, as scarcely to regard its own sensations.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Feeling Genius Soul True Virtue
Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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Equality Life
I gazed around with rapture, and felt more of that spontaneous pleasure which gives credibility to our expectation of happiness than I had for a long, long time before.
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Feeling Happiness Myself See Time
The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.
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Deserve Ideas Knowledge Mortal Power
Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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Equality Opinion Ourselves
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
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Expectation Independence Man Virtue Woman
They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
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Result Slave
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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End Mindset Strength Woman
She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
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Herself Thinking Voice
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
A little patience, and all will be over.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Hope One Liner Patience
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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Endurance Human Insult Patience Right Silence Wrong
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.
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Difference Greatness Man Myself Nature Place World
Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
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Passionate Reflection Solitude
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.
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Beautiful Body Mindset Seek Woman

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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