I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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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They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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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.
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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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If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence?
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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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 appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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I 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.
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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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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.
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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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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.
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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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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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