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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.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The greater number of people take their opinions on trust, to avoid the trouble of exercising their own minds, and these indolent beings naturally adhere to the letter, rather than the spirit of a law, divine or human.
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Avoid Divine Greatness Human Law Mindset Opinion People Trust
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
Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
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Devil Virtue
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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Intellectual Sex Strength Virtue
The most holy band of society is friendship. It has been well said, by a shrewd satirist, “that rare as true love is, true friendship is still rarer.
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Friendship True Love
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to their sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
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Attention Man Pay Sex Support Woman
It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
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Impossible Power Self Love Woman
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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Feeling Genius Soul True Virtue
Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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Imagination Philosophy
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
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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Choice Deep Evil Happiness Man Mistake Philosophy
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
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Education Live Man Opinion Woman Worth
We must all be in love once in our lives.
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Life Love Ourselves
After attacking the sacred majesty of Kings, I shall scarcely excite surprise by adding my firm persuasion that every profession, in which great subordination of rank constitutes its power, is highly injurious to morality.
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Greatness Injury Moral Myself Power
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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End Life Necessary Price
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.
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Appearance Necessary Principle Search Simplicity
Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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Affection Potential Self Love
The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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Advice Mindset One Liner
I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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Break Up Heart Myself True Love
I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Love Man Myself Reality Reason
How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Accomplishment Beautiful Respect Woman
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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Justice Man Reason
Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
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Dream End Forever Heart Life Live
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Human Philosophy
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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Justice World
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 WOLLSTONECRAFT

Time Woman
She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
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Herself Thinking Voice

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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