Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTBut what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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A little patience, and all will be over.
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
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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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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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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.
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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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They who pass their whole lives in working for their daily bread, have no ideas beyond their business or their interest, and all their understanding seems to lie in their fingers ends.
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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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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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Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
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