It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTFew, 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.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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The beginning is always today.
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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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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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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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Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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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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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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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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Rousseau exerts himself to prove that all was right originally: a crowd of authors that all is now right: and I, that all will be right.
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They are the men of fancy, the favourites of the sex, who outwardly respect, and inwardly despise the weak creatures whom they thus sport 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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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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Let woman share the rights, and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated, or justify the authority that chains such a weak being to her duty.
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A little patience, and all will be over.
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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
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