All Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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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.
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Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.
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It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
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It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.
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In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
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I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
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