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 WOLLSTONECRAFTBut let me now stop; I may be a little partial, and view every thing with the jaundiced eye of melancholy – for I am sad – and have cause.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.
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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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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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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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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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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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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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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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A little patience, and all will be over.
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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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It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
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Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
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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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