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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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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our…
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But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for…
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How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and…
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The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must…
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Despite his [Artie Shaw's] affectations of reclusiveness, he never tired of talking about himself, as countless long interviews reveal. I do not…
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Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact,…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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She holds herself with such reserve. She smiles, but the smile doesn't reach her eyes, even in the company of the girls…
— Lauren Myracle
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As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated…
— Mohsin Hamid
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