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From Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
- 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…
- Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that…
- Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as…
- In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
- Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify.…
- Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn…
- It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable…
- If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same…
- Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that…
- Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind,…
- What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave…
- It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
- Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
- How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then…
- True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.
- If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same…
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