They who pass their whole lives in working for their daily bread, have no ideas beyond their business or their interest, and all their understanding seems to lie in their fingers ends.
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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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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I gazed around with rapture, and felt more of that spontaneous pleasure which gives credibility to our expectation of happiness than I had for a long, long time before.
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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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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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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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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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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
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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.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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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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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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A little patience, and all will be over.
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Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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