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Mary Wollstonecraft has 93 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose…
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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.
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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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Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.
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Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
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It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the…
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
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The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.
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The beginning is always today.
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The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind…
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To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught…
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I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols…
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Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.
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I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.
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Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian…
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If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.
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I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty…
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O love, whose lordly hand Has bridled my desires, And raised my hunger and my thirst To dignity and pride, Let not…
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The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never…
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There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one…
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