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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.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Mary Wollstonecraft
Age: 38 †
Born: 1759
Born: April 27
Died: 1797
Died: September 10
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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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Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.
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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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Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
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Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.
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... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.
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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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It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
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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 mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.
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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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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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As a sex, women are habitually indolent and every thing tends to make them so.
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We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.
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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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Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a noble mind that pants for, and deserves to be respected. Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.
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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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...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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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 us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must be founded on knowledge, let us endeavour to strengthen our minds by reflection till our heads become a balance for our hearts.
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