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 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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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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A little patience, and all will be over.
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Not on the score of modesty, but decency; for the care which some modest women take, making at the same time a display of that care, not to let their legs be seen, is as childish as immodest.
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We must all be in love once in our lives.
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Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
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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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In short, women, in general, as well as the rich of both sexes, have acquired all the follies and vices of civilization, and missed the useful fruit.
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I shall not waste my time in rounding periods, nor in fabricating the turgid bombast of artificial feelings, which, coming from the head, never reach the heart.
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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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I like to use significant words.
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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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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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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.
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Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
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