After attacking the sacred majesty of Kings, I shall scarcely excite surprise by adding my firm persuasion that every profession, in which great subordination of rank constitutes its power, is highly injurious to morality.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTTaught 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.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!
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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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Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
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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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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a human being, regardless of the distinction of sex.
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My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.
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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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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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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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Rousseau exerts himself to prove that all was right originally: a crowd of authors that all is now right: and I, that all will be right.
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Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
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