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Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Let woman share the rights, and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated, or justify the authority that chains such a weak being to her duty.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Growth Man Perfection Right Virtue Weakness Woman
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Choice Deep Evil Happiness Man Mistake Philosophy
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Affection Friendship Principle Time
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Blessing Independence Life Live Secure Virtue
She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Creation Herself Man Reason
Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Establishment Man Woman Worth
The education of women has of late been more attended to than formerly; yet they are still reckoned a frivolous sex, and ridiculed or pitied by the writers who endavour by satire or instruction to improve them.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Education Improvement Sex Woman Writing
If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Ignorance Philosophy Woman
The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Deserve Ideas Knowledge Mortal Power
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Justice World
And if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty—they will prove that they have less mind than man.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beautiful Man Mindset Power Woman
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Justice Man Reason
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Affection Believe Love Man Myself Parents Play Relationship
Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Imagination Philosophy
I like to use significant words.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Myself Word
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sculpture the mind shapes itself to the body and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beautiful Body Mindset Seek Woman
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Desire Knowledge Life Ourselves
Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Character Reason
Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Dream End Forever Heart Life Live
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Dream Freedom Myself
Happy would it be for women, if they were only flattered by the men who loved them; I mean, who love the individual, not the sex.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Happiness Love Man Sex Woman
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

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

Herself Thinking Voice
Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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Heart Herself Photograph See
The greater number of people take their opinions on trust, to avoid the trouble of exercising their own minds, and these indolent beings naturally adhere to the letter, rather than the spirit of a law, divine or human.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Avoid Divine Greatness Human Law Mindset Opinion People Trust
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
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Friendship Happiness Heart Mindset People World

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