If we revert to history, we shall find t... by Mary Wollstonecraft

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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

Other quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

Authority Being

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Time

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

- 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

Women Men

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

- 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

Sex Love

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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