A little patience, and all will be over.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTWithout the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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The beginning is always today.
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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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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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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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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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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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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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Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
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We must all be in love once in our lives.
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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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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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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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Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
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