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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.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Age: 38 †
Born: 1759
Born: April 27
Died: 1797
Died: September 10
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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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Love, from its very nature, must be transitory.
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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.
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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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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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Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.
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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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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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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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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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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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I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
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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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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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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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I think I love most people best when they are in adversity for pity is one of my prevailing passions.
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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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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
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