Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTWomen 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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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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I like to see your eyes praise me and, during such recitals, there are interruptions, not ungrateful to the heart, when the honey that drops from the lips is not merely words.
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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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Into this error men have, probably, been led by viewing education in a false light; not considering it as the first step to form a being advancing gradually towards perfection; but only as a preparation for life.
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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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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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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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Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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I gazed around with rapture, and felt more of that spontaneous pleasure which gives credibility to our expectation of happiness than I had for a long, long time before.
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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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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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The greater number of people take their opinions on trust, to avoid the trouble of exercising their own minds, and these indolent beings naturally adhere to the letter, rather than the spirit of a law, divine or human.
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Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
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If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence?
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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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And if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty—they will prove that they have less mind than man.
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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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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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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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Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
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Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
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The beginning is always today.
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