Women are systematically degraded by rec... by Mary Wollstonecraft

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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.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Other quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

Life Will

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.

- 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

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Being

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

- 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

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