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Mary Wollstonecraft

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

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

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"The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man."

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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

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"No man loves the bearer of bad tidings."

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"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

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"It's a man's world, and you men can have it."

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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

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"Few men have been admired of their familiars."

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"And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?"

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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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"Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience."
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"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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"Virtue can only flourish among equals."
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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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"I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour."
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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."
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"What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory."
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"The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason."
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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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