Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTIt is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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Considering the length of time that women have been dependent, is it surprising that some of them hug their chains, and fawn like the spaniel?
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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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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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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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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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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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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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A little patience, and all will be over.
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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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Rousseau exerts himself to prove that all was right originally: a crowd of authors that all is now right: and I, that all will be right.
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a human being, regardless of the distinction of sex.
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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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