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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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The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.
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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 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 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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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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I think I love most people best when they are in adversity for pity is one of my prevailing passions.
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The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous.
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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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Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.
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Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
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As a sex, women are habitually indolent and every thing tends to make them so.
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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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Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify. Besides, the fear of an ignominious death, I believe, never deterred anyone from the commission of a crime, because in committing it the mind is roused to activity about present circumstances.
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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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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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I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.
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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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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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