Soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste are almost synonymous with the epithets of weakness, I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTLet us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?
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I like to use significant words.
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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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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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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does more to gratify our desire for knowledge than our best-laid plans.
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Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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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 do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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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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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
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We must all be in love once in our lives.
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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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Not on the score of modesty, but decency; for the care which some modest women take, making at the same time a display of that care, not to let their legs be seen, is as childish as immodest.
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Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
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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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Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?
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How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!
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Like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.
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All power inebriates weak man; and its abuse proves that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
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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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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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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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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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Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
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Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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