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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.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Age: 38 †
Born: 1759
Born: April 27
Died: 1797
Died: September 10
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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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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.
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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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When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.
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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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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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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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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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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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Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.
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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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... 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 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.
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