Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThe appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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We must all be in love once in our lives.
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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 may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
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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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It appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground.
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Taxes on the very necessaries of life, enable an endless tribe of idle princes and princesses to pass with stupid pomp before a gaping crowd, who almost worship the very parade which costs them so dear.
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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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But let me now stop; I may be a little partial, and view every thing with the jaundiced eye of melancholy – for I am sad – and have cause.
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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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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
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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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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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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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