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Virtue Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
- Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
- Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated ...
- In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
- Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and defections…
- Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle…
- Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.
- 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…
- And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present century are anxious…
- Virtue can only flourish among equals.
- Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my…
- It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
- Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual, or the injustice…
- But women are very differently situated with respect to eachother - for they are all rivals (...) Is it then surprising that when the sole…
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