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.
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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Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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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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Either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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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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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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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
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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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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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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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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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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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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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