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The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Age: 38 †
Born: 1759
Born: April 27
Died: 1797
Died: September 10
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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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It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.
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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 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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To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely on their husbands. Meek wives are, in general, foolish mothers wanting their children to love them best, and take their part, in secret, against the father, who is held up as a scarecrow.
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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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Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.
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We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.
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When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.
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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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As a sex, women are habitually indolent and every thing tends to make them so.
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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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Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.
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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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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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Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.
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Love, from its very nature, must be transitory.
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I must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject home to reason-to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes opinions on trust, and obstinately supports them to spare itself the labour of thinking.
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I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.
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