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Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
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#Innocent
#Men
#Weakness
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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.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
#Feelings
#Mind
#Silence
#Strength
#Women
In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
#Exercise
#Own
#Reason
#Result
#Virtues
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
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#Mind
#Progress
#Will
#World
I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
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#Man
#Me
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#Reason
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.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
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#Life
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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
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It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
#Alive
#Impossible
#Joy
#Me
#Spirit
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.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
#Manly
#Men
#Own
#Pay
#Sex
#Women
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
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#Danger
#Divine
#Kings
#Right
Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
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#Heart
#Life
#More
#Something
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
#Charity
#Justice
#Wanting
#World
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
#Beauty
#Body
#Mind
#Prison
#Woman
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
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#Government
#Representatives
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#Women
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.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
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#Man
#Society
#Villain
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
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#End
#Mind
#Obedience
#Will
The beginning is always today.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
#Always
#Beginning
#Today
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.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
#Free
#Good
#Men
#Will
#Women
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
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#Good
#Happiness
#Man
#Mistakes
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
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#Great
#Men
#Society
#Women
Virtue can only flourish among equals.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
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#Equality
#Flourish
#Only
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