The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTAs sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
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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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Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
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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.
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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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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?
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It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.
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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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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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I have sighed when obliged to confess that either Nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the civilization which has hitherto taken place in the world has been very partial.
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Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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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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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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Into this error men have, probably, been led by viewing education in a false light; not considering it as the first step to form a being advancing gradually towards perfection; but only as a preparation for life.
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