If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTWe must all be in love once in our lives.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
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They who pass their whole lives in working for their daily bread, have no ideas beyond their business or their interest, and all their understanding seems to lie in their fingers ends.
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Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
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All power inebriates weak man; and its abuse proves that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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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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It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
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Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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The man who had some virtue whilst he was struggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow.
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Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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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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We must all be in love once in our lives.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT