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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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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.
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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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The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.
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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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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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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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Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.
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Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a noble mind that pants for, and deserves to be respected. Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.
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Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must be founded on knowledge, let us endeavour to strengthen our minds by reflection till our heads become a balance for our hearts.
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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
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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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I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.
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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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I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
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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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As a sex, women are habitually indolent and every thing tends to make them so.
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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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