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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.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Age: 38 †
Born: 1759
Born: April 27
Died: 1797
Died: September 10
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We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.
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Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
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Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of body or mind and, thus viewing every thing through one medium, and that a false one, they are unable to discern in what true merit and happiness consist.
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Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
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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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Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.
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Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.
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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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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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Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and defections of their race, in a premature and unnatural manner, undermine the very foundation of virtue, and spread corruption through the whole mass of society!
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Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
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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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The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
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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 we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.
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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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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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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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I think I love most people best when they are in adversity for pity is one of my prevailing passions.
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