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Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.
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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Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
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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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I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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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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Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.
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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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How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind.
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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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What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.
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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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I think I love most people best when they are in adversity for pity is one of my prevailing passions.
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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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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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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
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