Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTIn 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.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
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Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
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Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
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Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
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But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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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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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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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
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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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I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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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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