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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

Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Heart Herself Photograph See
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Character Human Myself Sex Virtue
And if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty—they will prove that they have less mind than man.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beautiful Man Mindset Power Woman
Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner when they try to secure the good conduct of women by attempting to keep them always in a state of childhood.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Act Goodness Man Philosophy Secure Woman
Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Equality Life
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Blessing Independence Life Live Secure Virtue
How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Accomplishment Beautiful Respect Woman
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sculpture the mind shapes itself to the body and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beautiful Body Mindset Seek 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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Himself Sex 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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Friendship Happiness Heart Mindset People World
Like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beautiful Flower Rich Sacrifice Strength
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Equality Establishment Man Power Virtue Weakness
A little patience, and all will be over.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Attention Man Pay Sex Support Woman
In short, women, in general, as well as the rich of both sexes, have acquired all the follies and vices of civilization, and missed the useful fruit.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Rich Sex Vice Woman
I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Break Up Heart Myself True Love

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