But what a weak barrier is truth when it... by Mary Wollstonecraft | We Heart Quotes

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Other quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

Wrong Power Women Right Being

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?

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Wives Women Men Will

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.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Fancy

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Taught from their 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.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Exercise Fact Being

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Women Being Government

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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