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It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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Nature Respect Violence
As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
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Liberty Politics Virtue Wisdom Woman
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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Justice Man Reason
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
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
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
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Education Live Man Opinion Woman Worth
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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Himself Right
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
Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose.
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Friendship Happiness Heart Mindset People World
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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Time Woman
True sensibility, the sensibility which is the auxiliary of virtue, and the soul of genius, is in society so occupied with the feelings of others, as scarcely to regard its own sensations.
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Feeling Genius Soul True Virtue
It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
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Impossible Power Self Love 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
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
The greater number of people take their opinions on trust, to avoid the trouble of exercising their own minds, and these indolent beings naturally adhere to the letter, rather than the spirit of a law, divine or human.
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Avoid Divine Greatness Human Law Mindset Opinion People Trust
Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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Dignity Man Oppression Woman

It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.

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