Women ought to have representatives, ins... by Mary Wollstonecraft | We Heart Quotes

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Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Other quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Progress Mind World Will

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

- 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

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

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

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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