Friendship is a serious affection; the m... by Mary Wollstonecraft | We Heart Quotes

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Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Other quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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

- 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

Blind Mind End Will

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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

- 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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