Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sculpture the mind shapes itself to the body and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThey are the men of fancy, the favourites of the sex, who outwardly respect, and inwardly despise the weak creatures whom they thus sport with.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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We must all be in love once in our lives.
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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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If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
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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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In short, women, in general, as well as the rich of both sexes, have acquired all the follies and vices of civilization, and missed the useful fruit.
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All power inebriates weak man; and its abuse proves that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
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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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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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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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Either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized.
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I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a human being, regardless of the distinction of sex.
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The man who had some virtue whilst he was struggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow.
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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
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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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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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