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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

Mary Wollstonecraft

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Human Philosophy
If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
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Children Education Mom Patriotism Principle True
A little patience, and all will be over.
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Hope One Liner Patience
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
If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Ignorance Philosophy Woman
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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Choice Deep Evil Happiness Man Mistake Philosophy
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Love Man Myself Reality Reason
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
My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.
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Alone Hope Myself Sex View
The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.
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Deserve Ideas Knowledge Mortal Power
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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Justice World
They are the men of fancy, the favourites of the sex, who outwardly respect, and inwardly despise the weak creatures whom they thus sport with.
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Man Respect Sex Weakness
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
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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Himself Sex Woman
All power inebriates weak man; and its abuse proves that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
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Equality Establishment Man Power Virtue Weakness
Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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Nature Respect Violence
Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
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Establishment Man Woman Worth
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
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Blessing Independence Life Live Secure Virtue
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
I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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Myself Power Woman Women Empowerment
Either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized.
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Difference Greatness Man Nature
All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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Humanity Right Violence
Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does more to gratify our desire for knowledge than our best-laid plans.
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Desire Knowledge Life Ourselves
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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Beautiful Man Mindset Power Woman
Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Imagination Philosophy
Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Character Reason
Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Age Enough Learning Live

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

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