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" How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? "
Mary Wollstonecraft
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" 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. "
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" Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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 being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. "
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" Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave? "
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" Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream. "
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" Virtue can only flourish among equals. "
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" 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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" 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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" It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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