"I do earnestly wish to see the distinction……" — Mary Wollstonecraft
"I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour."
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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92 Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who…
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I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
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Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
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Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him…
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Our faith is well founded; but it is necessary that this faith become part of our lives. A great effort…
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Nature is the system of laws established by the Creator for the existence of things and for the succession of…
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A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that…
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Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.
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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.…
— James Boswell
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The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It…
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The volumes, the surfaces, the lines-in one word, the structures that build a tectonic construction-do not represent the whole picture:…
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Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.
— John of Salisbury
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Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take…
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