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I must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject home to reason-to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes opinions on trust, and obstinately supports them to spare itself the labour of thinking.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Age: 38 †
Born: 1759
Born: April 27
Died: 1797
Died: September 10
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... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.
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I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.
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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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Love, from its very nature, must be transitory.
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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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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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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.
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The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous.
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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.
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I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.
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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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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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It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.
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Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.
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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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I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
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In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
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We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.
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