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Being Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
- In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
- If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power,…
- The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
- How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
- Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
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