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 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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Like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.
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It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.
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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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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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It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
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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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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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Happy would it be for women, if they were only flattered by the men who loved them; I mean, who love the individual, not the sex.
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Into this error men have, probably, been led by viewing education in a false light; not considering it as the first step to form a being advancing gradually towards perfection; but only as a preparation for life.
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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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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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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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All power inebriates weak man; and its abuse proves that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
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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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