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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Age: 38 †
Born: 1759
Born: April 27
Died: 1797
Died: September 10
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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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... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant and the remainder vain and mean.
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Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness and they rarely go as far as as they may in any undertaking, who are determined not to go beyond it on any account.
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When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.
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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.
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When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.
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The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact.
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...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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When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.
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Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
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How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind.
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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 minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.
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The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.
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...I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude, to lift a handkerchief, orshut a door, when the lady could have done it herself, had she only moved a pace or two.
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The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.
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... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.
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