Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTAnd if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty – they will prove that they have less mind than man.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.
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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
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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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But let me now stop; I may be a little partial, and view every thing with the jaundiced eye of melancholy – for I am sad – and have cause.
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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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I like to use significant words.
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I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!
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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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Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
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True sensibility, the sensibility which is the auxiliary of virtue, and the soul of genius, is in society so occupied with the feelings of others, as scarcely to regard its own sensations.
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The beginning is always today.
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