"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?"
― Mary Wollstonecraft
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Power
More From Mary Wollstonecraft
- "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."
- "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."
- "No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."
More In Power
- "‘Smart power’ is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict – not just send our military in."― Hillary Clinton
- "When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away."― Shakti Gawain
- "Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations."― Raymond Chandler