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She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.

Mary Wollstonecraft

All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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Humanity Right Violence
Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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Nature Respect Violence
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
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Affection Friendship Principle Time
Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Hands Love Simplicity Truth
It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
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Impossible Power Self Love Woman
Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
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Character Woman
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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End Mindset Strength Woman
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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Intellectual Sex Strength Virtue
Rousseau exerts himself to prove that all was right originally: a crowd of authors that all is now right: and I, that all will be right.
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Himself Right
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
The man who had some virtue whilst he was struggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Man Struggle Virtue
They are the men of fancy, the favourites of the sex, who outwardly respect, and inwardly despise the weak creatures whom they thus sport with.
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Man Respect Sex Weakness
I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Break Up Heart Myself True Love
As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Liberty Politics Virtue Wisdom Woman
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 WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beyond Business End Fingers Ideas Lie Live Understanding
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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Choice Deep Evil Happiness Man Mistake Philosophy

She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.

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