Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTEvery glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose.
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Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
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My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.
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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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Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
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The beginning is always today.
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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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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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Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
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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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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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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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Considering the length of time that women have been dependent, is it surprising that some of them hug their chains, and fawn like the spaniel?
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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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