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"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."
Beauty
"Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense."
Strength
"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow."
Nature
"Virtue can only flourish among equals."
Virtue
"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."
Life
"The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger."
Age
"Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers."
Man
"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."
Progress
"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?"
Woman
"In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century."
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"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."
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"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."
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"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
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"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."
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"Age merely shows what children we remain."
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"Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age."
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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
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"The golden age is before us, not behind us."
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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"Not even old age knows how to love death."
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