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" 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. "

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Mind

Progress

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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. "

" 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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" No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. "

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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. "

" The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. "

" In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason. "

" The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger. "

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Danger

" Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour. "

" The beginning is always today. "

" Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. "

" 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. "

" Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream. "

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Heart

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "