The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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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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?
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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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Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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It appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground.
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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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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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Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
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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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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner when they try to secure the good conduct of women by attempting to keep them always in a state of childhood.
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Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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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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