We must all be in love once in our lives.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTI gazed around with rapture, and felt more of that spontaneous pleasure which gives credibility to our expectation of happiness than I had for a long, long time before.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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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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Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner when they try to secure the good conduct of women by attempting to keep them always in a state of childhood.
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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
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A little patience, and all will be over.
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I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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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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If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
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The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.
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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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The beginning is always today.
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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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Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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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.
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