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... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.

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 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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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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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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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 mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.
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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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To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely on their husbands. Meek wives are, in general, foolish mothers wanting their children to love them best, and take their part, in secret, against the father, who is held up as a scarecrow.
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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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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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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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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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When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.
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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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When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.
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I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.
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As a sex, women are habitually indolent and every thing tends to make them so.
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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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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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