In fact, it is a farce to call any being... by Mary Wollstonecraft | We Heart Quotes

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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

Other quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

Sense Mind Women

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Popular Opinion Age

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.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Sex Love

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft

If we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Women Man Will

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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