It is vain to expect virtue from women t... by Mary Wollstonecraft | We Heart Quotes

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It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Other quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

Life

Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

- 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

Soul Mind May Nothing

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Beauty Mind

Taught from 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

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