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Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to their sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Affection Potential Self Love
Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Death Eat Food Language Love Moral Philosophy Reality Reason
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

End Mindset Strength Woman
I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Break Up Heart Myself True Love
Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner when they try to secure the good conduct of women by attempting to keep them always in a state of childhood.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Act Goodness Man Philosophy Secure Woman
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Character Human Myself Sex Virtue
True sensibility, the sensibility which is the auxiliary of virtue, and the soul of genius, is in society so occupied with the feelings of others, as scarcely to regard its own sensations.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Feeling Genius Soul True Virtue
The beginning is always today.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beginning Inspirational One Liner
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Education Live Man Opinion Woman Worth
It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Impossible Power Self Love Woman
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beautiful Learning Seek
But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Philosophy Truth Weakness
She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Herself Thinking Voice
I like to use significant words.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Myself Word
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Alone Hope Myself Sex View
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Justice World

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to their sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

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