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.
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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Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
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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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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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Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
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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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It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.
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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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Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
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As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
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Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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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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