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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!

Mary Wollstonecraft

Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Mistake Philosophy
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

End Life Necessary Price
I like to see your eyes praise me and, during such recitals, there are interruptions, not ungrateful to the heart, when the honey that drops from the lips is not merely words.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Eyes Heart Lips Myself Word
A little patience, and all will be over.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Hope One Liner Patience
Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Hands Love Simplicity Truth
Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Affection Potential Self Love
Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Imagination Philosophy
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 WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beautiful Body Mindset Seek Woman
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Choice Deep Evil Happiness Man Mistake Philosophy
I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Myself Power Woman Women Empowerment
Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beautiful Learning Seek
Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Establishment Man Woman Worth
She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Herself Thinking Voice
Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does more to gratify our desire for knowledge than our best-laid plans.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Desire Knowledge Life Ourselves
But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Philosophy Truth Weakness
Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Devil Virtue

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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