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When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Age: 38 †
Born: 1759
Born: April 27
Died: 1797
Died: September 10
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Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.
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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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People thinking for themselves have more energy in their voice, than any government, which it is possible for human wisdom to invent and every government not aware of this sacred truth will, at some period, be suddenly overturned.
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My husband - my king.
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