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Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Happy would it be for women, if they were only flattered by the men who loved them; I mean, who love the individual, not the sex.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Happiness Love Man Sex Woman
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 WOLLSTONECRAFT

Himself Sex Woman
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 WOLLSTONECRAFT

Time Woman
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Greatness Injury Moral Myself Power
Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner when they try to secure the good conduct of women by attempting to keep them always in a state of childhood.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Act Goodness Man Philosophy Secure Woman
It appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Appearance Necessary Principle Search Simplicity
I gazed around with rapture, and felt more of that spontaneous pleasure which gives credibility to our expectation of happiness than I had for a long, long time before.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Feeling Happiness Myself See Time
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 WOLLSTONECRAFT

Man Respect Sex Weakness
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 WOLLSTONECRAFT

Care Time Woman
Rousseau exerts himself to prove that all was right originally: a crowd of authors that all is now right: and I, that all will be right.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Himself Right
Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Government Husband Intellectual Woman
Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Passionate Reflection Solitude
I like to use significant words.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Myself Word
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Dream Freedom Myself
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sculpture the mind shapes itself to the body and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beautiful Body Mindset Seek Woman
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 WOLLSTONECRAFT

Education Improvement Sex Woman Writing

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