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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThey 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.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
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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 like to see your eyes praise me and, during such recitals, there are interruptions, not ungrateful to the heart, when the honey that drops from the lips is not merely words.
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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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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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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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Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence?
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In short, women, in general, as well as the rich of both sexes, have acquired all the follies and vices of civilization, and missed the useful fruit.
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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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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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