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Mary Wollstonecraft
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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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Mary Wollstonecraft
Topic(s):
Women
"I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour."
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Topic(s):
Society
"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."
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Topic(s):
Strength
"If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?"
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Topic(s):
Power
"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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Mary Wollstonecraft
Topic(s):
Men
"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Topic(s):
Good
"Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain."
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Topic(s):
Freedom
"Virtue can only flourish among equals."
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Topic(s):
Equality
"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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Mary Wollstonecraft
Topic(s):
Beauty
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