Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThe beginning is always today.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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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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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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Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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I like to see your eyes praise me and, during such recitals, there are interruptions, not ungrateful to the heart, when the honey that drops from the lips is not merely words.
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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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Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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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.
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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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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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