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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.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Age: 38 †
Born: 1759
Born: April 27
Died: 1797
Died: September 10
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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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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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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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I think I love most people best when they are in adversity for pity is one of my prevailing passions.
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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
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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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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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