Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTLet 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.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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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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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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She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
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Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose.
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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.
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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
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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.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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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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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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If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
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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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