Either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTShe was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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We must all be in love once in our lives.
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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 never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.
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Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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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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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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