We must all be in love once in our lives.
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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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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The greater number of people take their opinions on trust, to avoid the trouble of exercising their own minds, and these indolent beings naturally adhere to the letter, rather than the spirit of a law, divine or human.
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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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The beginning is always today.
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The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose.
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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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Let woman share the rights, and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated, or justify the authority that chains such a weak being to her duty.
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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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Taxes on the very necessaries of life, enable an endless tribe of idle princes and princesses to pass with stupid pomp before a gaping crowd, who almost worship the very parade which costs them so dear.
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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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It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
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The most holy band of society is friendship. It has been well said, by a shrewd satirist, “that rare as true love is, true friendship is still rarer.
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They who pass their whole lives in working for their daily bread, have no ideas beyond their business or their interest, and all their understanding seems to lie in their fingers ends.
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