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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.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A man, when he undertakes a journey, has, in general the end in view; a woman thinks more of the incidental occurrences, the strange things that may possibly occur on the road.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Man Possible Thinking View Woman
Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
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Passionate Reflection Solitude
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
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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Affection Friendship Principle Time
Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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Equality Opinion Ourselves
Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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Affection Potential Self Love
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
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Blessing Independence Life Live Secure Virtue
I like to use significant words.
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Myself Word
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

End Mindset Strength Woman
The education of women has of late been more attended to than formerly; yet they are still reckoned a frivolous sex, and ridiculed or pitied by the writers who endavour by satire or instruction to improve them.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Education Improvement Sex Woman Writing
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Intellectual Sex Strength Virtue
Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Age Enough Learning Live
Like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beautiful Flower Rich Sacrifice Strength
Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Dignity Man Oppression Woman
If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Ignorance Philosophy Woman
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 WOLLSTONECRAFT

Himself Sex Woman

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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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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