Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTStill the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Into this error men have, probably, been led by viewing education in a false light; not considering it as the first step to form a being advancing gradually towards perfection; but only as a preparation for life.
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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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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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She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
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Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
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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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Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
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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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I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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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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Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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We must all be in love once in our lives.
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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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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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