She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTI shall not waste my time in rounding periods, nor in fabricating the turgid bombast of artificial feelings, which, coming from the head, never reach the heart.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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We must all be in love once in our lives.
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A little patience, and all will be over.
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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.
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As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
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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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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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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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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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Like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.
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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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The beginning is always today.
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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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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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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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