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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThe beginning is always today.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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Soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste are almost synonymous with the epithets of weakness, I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue.
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Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
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Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
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The beginning is always today.
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The most holy band of society is friendship. It has been well said, by a shrewd satirist, “that rare as true love is, true friendship is still rarer.
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Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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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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The man who had some virtue whilst he was struggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow.
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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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I like to use significant words.
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The education of women has of late been more attended to than formerly; yet they are still reckoned a frivolous sex, and ridiculed or pitied by the writers who endavour by satire or instruction to improve them.
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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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