Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTFriendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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Considering the length of time that women have been dependent, is it surprising that some of them hug their chains, and fawn like the spaniel?
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Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
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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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We must all be in love once in our lives.
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A king is always a king-and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex, ever stand between them and rational converse.
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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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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.
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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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Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
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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.
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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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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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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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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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