If the abstract rights of man will bear... by Mary Wollstonecraft | We Heart Quotes

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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

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Sex Fact Women 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.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Beginning Today

The beginning is always today.

- 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

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

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

Fancy

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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