"When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his……" — Mary Wollstonecraft
"When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him."
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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92 Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft has 92 quotes on this site.
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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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More Despise Quotes
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
— Marcus Aurelius
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
— James A. Baldwin
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For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the…
— Annie Besant
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Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is…
— John O. Brennan
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Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be…
— Alton Brown
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Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size…
— Julie Burchill
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Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic…
— Julie Burchill
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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
— Noam Chomsky
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I am circumcised, and I tell you something, I despise it. I despise it. I despise it... I am completely…
— Howard Stern
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of…
— William Cowper
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Where one despises, one cannot wage war.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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