But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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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I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a human being, regardless of the distinction of sex.
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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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It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
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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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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.
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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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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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She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.
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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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And if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty—they will prove that they have less mind than man.
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As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
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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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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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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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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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