Like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.
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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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
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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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Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
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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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A little patience, and all will be over.
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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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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sculpture the mind shapes itself to the body and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
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The man who had some virtue whilst he was struggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow.
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A man, when he undertakes a journey, has, in general the end in view; a woman thinks more of the incidental occurrences, the strange things that may possibly occur on the road.
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Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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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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Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
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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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Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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