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Either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized.

Mary Wollstonecraft

They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
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Result Slave
Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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Nature Respect Violence
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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Growth Man Perfection Right Virtue Weakness Woman
If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence?
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Ignorance Philosophy Woman
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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Feeling Heart Myself Wasted Time
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
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Expectation Independence Man Virtue Woman
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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Exception Myself Necessary Promise Sex
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sculpture the mind shapes itself to the body and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
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Beautiful Body Mindset Seek Woman
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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Justice World
They are the men of fancy, the favourites of the sex, who outwardly respect, and inwardly despise the weak creatures whom they thus sport with.
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Man Respect Sex Weakness
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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Beginning Education People Teaching Thinking Young
Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose.
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Friendship Happiness Heart Mindset People World
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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Affection Believe Love Man Myself Parents Play Relationship
Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?
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Death Eat Food Language Love Moral Philosophy Reality Reason
The beginning is always today.
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Beginning Inspirational One Liner
I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Myself Power Woman Women Empowerment

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