Mary Wollstonecraft on greatness
Mary Wollstonecraft92 quotes“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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A king is always a king-and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex, ever stand between them and rational converse.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft The education of women has of late been more attended to than formerly; yet they are still reckoned a frivolous sex, and ridiculed or pitied by the writers who endavour by satire or instruction to improve them.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft 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?
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft A little patience, and all will be over.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft 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.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft 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.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft 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.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Not on the score of modesty, but decency; for the care which some modest women take, making at the same time a display of that care, not to let their legs be seen, is as childish as immodest.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft
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