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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTI like to use significant words.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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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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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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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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A little patience, and all will be over.
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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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Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
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Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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I like to see your eyes praise me and, during such recitals, there are interruptions, not ungrateful to the heart, when the honey that drops from the lips is not merely words.
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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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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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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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Happy would it be for women, if they were only flattered by the men who loved them; I mean, who love the individual, not the sex.
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We must all be in love once in our lives.
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