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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.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Age: 38 †
Born: 1759
Born: April 27
Died: 1797
Died: September 10
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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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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
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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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I think I love most people best when they are in adversity for pity is one of my prevailing passions.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
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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 do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
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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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Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
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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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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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