“… wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!”
Mary Wollstonecraft
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“Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it … swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of body or mind; and, thus viewing every thing through one medium, and that a false one, they are unable to discern in what true merit and happiness consist.”
Mary Wollstonecraft
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“At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the constitution before it is formed; hardening the heart as it weakens the understanding.”
Mary Wollstonecraft
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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.”
Mary Wollstonecraft
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“… what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!”
Mary Wollstonecraft
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“… the conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason …”
Mary Wollstonecraft
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“How many women … waste life away the prey of discontent, who might have practised as physicians, regulated a farm, managed a shop, and stood erect, supported by their own industry, instead of hanging their heads surcharged with the dew of sensibility, that consumes the beauty to which it at first gave lustre …”
Mary Wollstonecraft
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“Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience, and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man; and should they be beautiful, every thing else is needless, for, at least, twenty years of their lives.”
Mary Wollstonecraft
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“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.”
Mary Wollstonecraft
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