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Woman Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
- To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely…
- Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated ...
- A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse
- When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.
- When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.
- 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…
- 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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