Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTShe would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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We must all be in love once in our lives.
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It is not necessary for me always to premise, that I speak of the condition of the whole sex, leaving exceptions out of the question.
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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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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner when they try to secure the good conduct of women by attempting to keep them always in a state of childhood.
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She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
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I like to use significant words.
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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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It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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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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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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Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
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