Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTMen of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
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The man who had some virtue whilst he was struggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow.
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I like to use significant words.
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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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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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Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
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As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
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A little patience, and all will be over.
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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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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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The beginning is always today.
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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
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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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A man, when he undertakes a journey, has, in general the end in view; a woman thinks more of the incidental occurrences, the strange things that may possibly occur on the road.
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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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