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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTTrue 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.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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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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Happy would it be for women, if they were only flattered by the men who loved them; I mean, who love the individual, not the sex.
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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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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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They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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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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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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Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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The beginning is always today.
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I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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