As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTEvery glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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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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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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The most holy band of society is friendship. It has been well said, by a shrewd satirist, “that rare as true love is, true friendship is still rarer.
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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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Let 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.
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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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Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
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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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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
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I like to use significant words.
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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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But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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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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