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If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.

Mary Wollstonecraft

I like to use significant words.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Myself Word
They who pass their whole lives in working for their daily bread, have no ideas beyond their business or their interest, and all their understanding seems to lie in their fingers ends.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beyond Business End Fingers Ideas Lie Live Understanding
Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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Dignity Man Oppression Woman
Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?
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Death Eat Food Language Love Moral Philosophy Reality Reason
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
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Dream Freedom Myself
Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Character Reason
Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
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Genius Man Talent Woman
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
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
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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Eyes Myself Sad Stop View
Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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Heart Herself Photograph See
The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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Advice Mindset One Liner
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
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
Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
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Character Woman
After attacking the sacred majesty of Kings, I shall scarcely excite surprise by adding my firm persuasion that every profession, in which great subordination of rank constitutes its power, is highly injurious to morality.
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Greatness Injury Moral Myself Power
I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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Myself Power Woman Women Empowerment
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
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
If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Children Education Mom Patriotism Principle True
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
Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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Equality Life
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
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
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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Justice Man Reason
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
Not on the score of modesty, but decency; for the care which some modest women take, making at the same time a display of that care, not to let their legs be seen, is as childish as immodest.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Care Time Woman

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