Considering the length of time that women have been dependent, is it surprising that some of them hug their chains, and fawn like the spaniel?
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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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.
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The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.
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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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The education of women has of late been more attended to than formerly; yet they are still reckoned a frivolous sex, and ridiculed or pitied by the writers who endavour by satire or instruction to improve them.
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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.
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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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Let their faculties have room to unfold, and their virtues to gain strength, and then determine where the whole sex must stand in the intellectual scale.
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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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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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A king is always a king-and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex, ever stand between them and rational converse.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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Let woman share the rights, and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated, or justify the authority that chains such a weak being to her duty.
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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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Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.
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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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The beginning is always today.
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But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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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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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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We must all be in love once in our lives.
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I like to use significant words.
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