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The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Age: 38 †
Born: 1759
Born: April 27
Died: 1797
Died: September 10
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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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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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A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.
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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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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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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.
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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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We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.
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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
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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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Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.
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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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As a sex, women are habitually indolent and every thing tends to make them so.
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My husband - my king.
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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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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
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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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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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Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.
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