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Mary Wollstonecraft power

Mary Wollstonecraft | power

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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Mary Wollstonecraft Nature

Mary Wollstonecraft | nature

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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Mary Wollstonecraft men

Mary Wollstonecraft | men

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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knowledge Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft | knowledge

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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happiness Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft | happiness

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

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government Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft | government

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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freedom Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft | freedom

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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family Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft | family

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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equality Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft | equality

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

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education Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft | education

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

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