They who pass their whole lives in working for their daily bread, have no ideas beyond their business or their interest, and all their understanding seems to lie in their fingers ends.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTLet their faculties have room to unfold, and their virtues to gain strength, and then determine where the whole sex must stand in the intellectual scale.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.
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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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We must all be in love once in our lives.
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They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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The beginning is always today.
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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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I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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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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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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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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She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.
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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.
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It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
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