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Mary Wollstonecraft

"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."

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"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."

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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

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"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

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"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

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"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."

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"Produce great men, the rest follows."

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"And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero."

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"If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind."

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"The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise."

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"The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough."

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"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"

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"Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience."
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"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."
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"The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason."
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"It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust."
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"In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason."
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"Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream."
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"Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain."
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"I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man."
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"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."
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"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."
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