"If the abstract rights of man will bear……" — Mary Wollstonecraft
"If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test. If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?"
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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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