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My husband - my king.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Mary Wollstonecraft
Age: 38 †
Born: 1759
Born: April 27
Died: 1797
Died: September 10
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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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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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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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I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.
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When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.
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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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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.
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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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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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When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.
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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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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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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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... 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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... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.
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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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Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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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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