British - Writer | April 27, 1759 - September 10, 1797
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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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
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Virtue can only flourish among equals.
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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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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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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.
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The beginning is always today.
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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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Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
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The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
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