I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThe 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.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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It is not necessary for me always to premise, that I speak of the condition of the whole sex, leaving exceptions out of the question.
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Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
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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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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
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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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I like to use significant words.
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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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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.
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Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
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We must all be in love once in our lives.
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Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.
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Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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Let woman share the rights, and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated, or justify the authority that chains such a weak being to her duty.
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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does more to gratify our desire for knowledge than our best-laid plans.
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