Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTIf then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence?
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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.
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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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If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
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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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Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
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I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
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Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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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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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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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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It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
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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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