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And if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty – they will prove that they have less mind than man.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Education Live Man Opinion Woman Worth
They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Result Slave
The man who had some virtue whilst he was struggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Man Struggle Virtue
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Exception Myself Necessary Promise Sex
Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Affection Believe Love Man Myself Parents Play Relationship
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
Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Dream End Forever Heart Life Live
Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Government Husband Intellectual Woman
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beyond Business End Fingers Ideas Lie Live Understanding
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Human Philosophy
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
It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Disappointment Love Trust
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
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Friendship Happiness Heart Mindset People World
The beginning is always today.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beginning Inspirational One Liner
Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beginning Education People Teaching Thinking Young

And if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty – they will prove that they have less mind than man.

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