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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.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Mary Wollstonecraft
Age: 38 †
Born: 1759
Born: April 27
Died: 1797
Died: September 10
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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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We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.
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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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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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In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
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I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.
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When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
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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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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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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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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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I think I love most people best when they are in adversity for pity is one of my prevailing passions.
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Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.
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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
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Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
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If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
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When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.
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