"...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely……" — Mary Wollstonecraft
"...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under the influence of their senses, pay them, do not seek to obtain a durable interest in their hearts, or to become the friends of the fellow creatures who find amusement in their society."
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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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Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get…
— Jensen Ackles
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To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is…
— Albert Camus
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I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to…
— Kurt Cobain
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We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful…
— C.S. Lewis
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There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way…
— Ieyasu Tokugawa
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Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its…
— C.S. Lewis
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The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy.…
— John Ralston Saul
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We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden,…
— Aimee Semple McPherson
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One of the greatest things about daughters is how they adored you when they were little; how they rushed into…
— Michael Josephson
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I hope that this form of Adoration, with permanent exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, will continue into the future. Specifically,…
— Pope John Paul II
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Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to…
— Richard J. Foster
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We must understand that in order 'to do', we must first learn 'to be', that is to say, in the…
— Pope John Paul II
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