A little patience, and all will be over.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTOnly that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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A man, when he undertakes a journey, has, in general the end in view; a woman thinks more of the incidental occurrences, the strange things that may possibly occur on the road.
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Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
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It is not necessary for me always to premise, that I speak of the condition of the whole sex, leaving exceptions out of the question.
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Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
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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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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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The man who had some virtue whilst he was struggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow.
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But let me now stop; I may be a little partial, and view every thing with the jaundiced eye of melancholy – for I am sad – and have cause.
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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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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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