Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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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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.
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Either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized.
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All power inebriates weak man; and its abuse proves that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
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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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Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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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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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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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.
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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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If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
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I like to use significant words.
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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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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
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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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