They are the men of fancy, the favourites of the sex, who outwardly respect, and inwardly despise the weak creatures whom they thus sport with.
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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Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
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The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.
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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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It appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground.
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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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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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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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Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?
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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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If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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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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Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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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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