Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTMen who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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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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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.
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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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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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All power inebriates weak man; and its abuse proves that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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We must all be in love once in our lives.
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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?
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Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
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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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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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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.
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It is not necessary for me always to premise, that I speak of the condition of the whole sex, leaving exceptions out of the question.
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