"Men, in general, seem to employ their reason……" — Mary Wollstonecraft
"Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out."
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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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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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The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being,…
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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
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The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking…
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Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution.…
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How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the…
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The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind…
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War is a barbaric tool of the war profiteers and Empires who employ them. War pits young people from the…
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Bestow rewards without respect to customary practice; publish orders without respect to precedent. Thus you may employ the entire army…
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This world will slam doors in your face at every opportunity. Be willing to employ a foot when necessary.
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The nature of competition is such that any number of people invariably have their eyes on the same prize you…
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