It appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTI like to use significant words.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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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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Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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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 vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
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But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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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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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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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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In short, women, in general, as well as the rich of both sexes, have acquired all the follies and vices of civilization, and missed the useful fruit.
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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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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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