Mary Wollstonecraft Short Quotes

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The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other.

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Minute attention to propriety stops the growth of virtue.

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Judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart...

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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

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Wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!

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A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.

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We never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.

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Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

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Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.

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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

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I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.

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What a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

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A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

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As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so.

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Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.

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When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.

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When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?

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Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.

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True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

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Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

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How can a rational being be ennobled by anything that is not obtained by its own exertions?

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The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason...

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

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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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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

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You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track — the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.

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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.

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I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.

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