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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. "
Innocent
Men
Weakness
" Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. "
Must
Productive
Political
" How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? "
Any
Thing
Rational
" I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour. "
Where
Love
See
" If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test. "
Rights
Discussion
Women
" 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? "
Right
Women
Stop
" 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. "
Man
Love
Me
" 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. "
Live
Long
Life
" In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. "
Opinion
Age
Character
" In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason. "
Result
Virtues
Exercise
" 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. "
Joy
Alive
Spirit
" It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. "
Charity
World
Wanting
" 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. "
Time
Dignity
Revolution
" Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. "
Knowledge
Nature
Me
" 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. "
Will
Become
Free
" Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. "
Men
Education
Great
" No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. "
Happiness
He
Evil
" 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. "
Long
Mind
Progress
" Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience. "
Will
Blind
Mind
" Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream. "
More
Dream
Heart
" 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. "
Prison
Mind
Cage
" The beginning is always today. "
Beginning
Today
Always
" The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. "
Authority
Cannot
Rational
" The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger. "
Like
Right
Danger
" 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. "
Energy
Villain
Society
" Virtue can only flourish among equals. "
Equality
Flourish
Virtue
" What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory. "
Men
Dark
Church
" Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave? "
Beyond
Fancy
Our
" 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. "
Freedom
Enjoy
Women
" 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. "
Fact
Men
Women
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