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Own Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
- My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as…
- In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
- Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must…
- Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that endears life, but…
- Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly…
- How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
- Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to…
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