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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

I like to use significant words.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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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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  True sensibility, the sensibility which is the auxiliary of virtue, and the soul of genius, is in society so occupied with the feelings of others, as scarcely to regard its own sensations.

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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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  Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does more to gratify our desire for knowledge than our best-laid plans.

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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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  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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  And if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty—they will prove that they have less mind than man.

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  Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

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  I shall not waste my time in rounding periods, nor in fabricating the turgid bombast of artificial feelings, which, coming from the head, never reach the heart.

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  I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.

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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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  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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  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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  Like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.

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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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