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But 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.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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Herself Willing Woman
If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
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Children Education Mom Patriotism Principle True
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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Attention Man Pay Sex Support Woman
Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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Equality Life
Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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Affection Potential Self Love
Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
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Character Woman
Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.
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Affection Believe Love Man Myself Parents Play Relationship
How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!
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Accomplishment Beautiful Respect Woman
We must all be in love once in our lives.
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Life Love Ourselves
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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Intellectual Sex Strength Virtue
The beginning is always today.
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Beginning Inspirational One Liner
Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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Nature Respect Violence
Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
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Establishment Man Woman Worth
She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
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Herself Thinking Voice
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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Happiness Love Man Sex Woman
Like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.
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Beautiful Flower Rich Sacrifice Strength
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.
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Beyond Business End Fingers Ideas Lie Live Understanding
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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Beautiful Man Mindset Power Woman
Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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Government Husband Intellectual Woman
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
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Human Philosophy
I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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Break Up Heart Myself True Love
After attacking the sacred majesty of Kings, I shall scarcely excite surprise by adding my firm persuasion that every profession, in which great subordination of rank constitutes its power, is highly injurious to morality.
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Greatness Injury Moral Myself Power
Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
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Genius Man Talent Woman
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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Justice World
I like to use significant words.
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Myself Word
Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?
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Death Eat Food Language Love Moral Philosophy Reality Reason
It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
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Impossible Power Self Love Woman

But 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.

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