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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.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Age: 38 †
Born: 1759
Born: April 27
Died: 1797
Died: September 10
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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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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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...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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Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.
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... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.
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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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Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.
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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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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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Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
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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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...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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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.
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When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.
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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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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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The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.
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The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
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