A king is always a king-and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex, ever stand between them and rational converse.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThe man who had some virtue whilst he was struggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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.
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Soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste are almost synonymous with the epithets of weakness, I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue.
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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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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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Let their faculties have room to unfold, and their virtues to gain strength, and then determine where the whole sex must stand in the intellectual scale.
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The beginning is always today.
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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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Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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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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Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
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I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a human being, regardless of the distinction of sex.
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