And if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty—they will prove that they have less mind than man.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTIt may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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.
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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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Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
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But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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I gazed around with rapture, and felt more of that spontaneous pleasure which gives credibility to our expectation of happiness than I had for a long, long time before.
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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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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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Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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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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I shall not waste my time in rounding periods, nor in fabricating the turgid bombast of artificial feelings, which, coming from the head, never reach the heart.
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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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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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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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Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
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