I like to use significant words.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTSurely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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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.
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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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A king is always a king-and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex, ever stand between them and rational converse.
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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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It appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground.
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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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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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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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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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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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Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
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I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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In short, women, in general, as well as the rich of both sexes, have acquired all the follies and vices of civilization, and missed the useful fruit.
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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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