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It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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End Mindset Strength Woman
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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Intellectual Sex Strength Virtue
A little patience, and all will be over.
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Hope One Liner Patience
She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.
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Creation Herself Man Reason
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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Man Struggle Virtue
Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
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Beautiful Learning Seek
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
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Expectation Independence Man Virtue Woman
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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Attention Man Pay Sex Support Woman
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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Beginning Education People Teaching Thinking Young
I like to use significant words.
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Myself Word
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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Accomplishment Beautiful Respect Woman
Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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Government Husband Intellectual Woman
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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Ignorance Philosophy Woman
Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
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Devil Virtue
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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Justice World
It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Impossible Power Self Love Woman

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